The Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC

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On 11/10/2021 at 1:16 AM, JHG said:

Nice review in December 2021 Stereophile

 

 

Indeed a nice review, thanks for pointing that one out.

 

Herb Reichert is (also!) quite taken by the Tambaqui:

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The dCS and Mola Mola turn streaming music into a sophisticated, high-level pastime, but there is one thing the Tambaqui does that the Bartók does not do: intense, raw clarity. And the chief byproduct of that intense, raw clarity is that recordings appear denser with a more believable corporeality than I’ve previously encountered from digital.

 

Before the Mola Mola, the Bartók was by far the most vivid, enlivened digital I’d ever used. Before the Tambaqui, the Bartók was the only DAC I wanted to use. Now I am torn. Both DACs show that improvements in the quality of digital playback have not stalled. No fact can be of greater importance to our listening hobby.

 

It adds to my (already high) curiosity. I'm going to audition the Tambaqui within the next few months. 

 

Do any of you use the Grimm MU1 with the Tambaqui? Any thoughts?

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The full review by Herb Reichert is online.

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Hi @PYP

Thanks. Christiaan Punter is has indeed reviewed positively the Tambaqui and the MU1 as well as the combination of the two. In fact there's more than one professional reviewer who evaluated the pairing of the Tambaqui with the MU1 favorabily. I'm especially interested in the first hand experiences of fellow audiophilestyle contributors. So so, if anyone has experience with both I would like to hear about it!

Cheers,

Marc

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Hi @AnAndGate

I have a QX-5 and I'm very fond of it. Having said that, I'm very curious of how the Tambaqui would sound in my system and how it compares to the QX-5. I hope to audition the Tambaqui within two weeks in my own system and thus make a direct - albeit short - comparison. I'll report back here, but don't expect an in-depth review!

If you come across any other comparison of the two I'd appreciate it if you'd post about it here ... I couldn't find one either!

Cheers,

Marc