mikicasellas Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 I am at the point where DAC and Server are the most important things to upgrade up to the same level of my Preamp, amp and speakers, i have just tried the Bricasti M5 which worked as a streamer from my MacMini, although the sound improved it was just a notch, at the same time the M5 arrived also a pair of Tellurium Ultra Black XLR's which made the bigger improvement over the M5, go figure, so i returned the M5 cause i don't think 2,000 usd were worth the little extra improvement, the same thing happened when i put a Microrendu more than one year ago, with lesser speakers i never found an improvement over my Mac mini. So now by these findings i am guessing a better DAC would do the upgrade iam looking for and from there perhaps a server/streamer like the Zenith MKII or viceversa My actual server streamer is a Mac mini Server will be a Zenith MKII My actual DAC is the OPPO 205 I am interested on these DACS: Yggy VEGA G2 PS Junior DENAFRIPS Terminator So far price/performance wise, YGGY is the Schiit, but would going an extra 2,000 usd (aprox) over Yggy would worth to find a sound wise improvement with the other DACs mentioned here? ER + PH DR7T - TAIKO Server + PH DR7T ( HQPOs + ROON ) JCAT XE USB - Lampizator Baltic 4 - D-Athena preamp - K- EX-M7 amp - PMC Twenty5 26 Link to comment
Ralf11 Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 budget? sounds like up to 4k maybe... all source material Redbooky or some DSD? does rock/pop include female acoustic vocals? Link to comment
mikicasellas Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 5 minutes ago, Ralf11 said: budget? sounds like up to 4k maybe... all source material Redbooky or some DSD? does rock/pop include female acoustic vocals? Hi Ralf11 Some DSD but mostly 16/44.1, 24/96 and 24/192 tops, Music: Police, Sting, Collins, Rush, Zeppelin, AC/DC, A-ha, Benatar, ZZ Top, Pear Jam and so on ER + PH DR7T - TAIKO Server + PH DR7T ( HQPOs + ROON ) JCAT XE USB - Lampizator Baltic 4 - D-Athena preamp - K- EX-M7 amp - PMC Twenty5 26 Link to comment
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