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    The Primare BD32 is a stunning digital device; highly recommended

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    As USB dacs go I wouldn’t write off pro and semi pro usb music interfaces. As my active speakers have balanced inputs so I thought I would try out my Tascam 2x2 interface. Not only is it recognised as a USB dac without any drivers required, I retired my Rega DAC and now use the Tascam.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Primalsea View Post
    As USB dacs go I wouldn’t write off pro and semi pro usb music interfaces. As my active speakers have balanced inputs so I thought I would try out my Tascam 2x2 interface. Not only is it recognised as a USB dac without any drivers required, I retired my Rega DAC and now use the Tascam.
    In a similar vein, this new consumer-orientated DAC from Pro company RME looks very attractive to me:

    https://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/adi_2-dac.php

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    [IMG]20170823_090339 by Geoff Old, on Flickr[/IMG]

    Tucked in the bottom left of my rack is the best digital component I have heard, and I have heard a lot. It is the Technics SH-X1000 DAC, a Technics statement piece from 1995 with a $10,000 launch price designed to obliterate the first high end offerings from Krell and Mark Levinson. It only does redbook, but that's all I have and it makes them sing.



    The internals show a care and attention that is rare. The Japanese statement pieces from this period are, in my opinion, some of the very finest hifi offerings of all time but were ignored by the British hifi press, to our misfortune.
    Main system: Sony TTS8000; AT1010; Audio Technica Art1; The Lentek; Cambridge 851n, Yamaha NS1000.
    System 2 - SBT; Technics SH-X1000 DAC; Denon PMA-850

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    That's a dac? Have you accidentally inserted a picture of a beefy power amp??

    Sent from my BLN-L21 using Tapatalk

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lawrence001 View Post
    That's a dac? Have you accidentally inserted a picture of a beefy power amp??

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    It's a DAC; the best I've heard!
    Main system: Sony TTS8000; AT1010; Audio Technica Art1; The Lentek; Cambridge 851n, Yamaha NS1000.
    System 2 - SBT; Technics SH-X1000 DAC; Denon PMA-850

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldius View Post
    It's a DAC; the best I've heard!
    It certainly looks very impressive and beautifully made.

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    It certainly looks very impressive and beautifully made.
    Attention paid where it actually matters instead of upsampling and all that bollocks. What a shame no-one is doing that these days, at least not at an affordable price.
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Attention paid where it actually matters instead of upsampling and all that bollocks. What a shame no-one is doing that these days, at least not at an affordable price.
    Looks a crackin’ dac, but it did do some of that bollocks...albeit in quite an interesting way!
    The matching cd transport looks just as good.
    http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SH-X1000.html

    Lovely bit of kit.
    AC POWER
    Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
    AMPS
    Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
    SPEAKERS
    Wharfedale Evo 4.4
    DAC
    PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
    TURNTABLE
    Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
    PHONOSTAGE
    Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
    DIGITAL
    OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
    MUSIC PLAYBACK
    Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
    Ipad Roon Remote.
    Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
    SPEAKER CABLES
    Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On
    "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
    INTERCONNECTS
    All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
    Looks a crackin’ dac, but it did do some of that bollocks...albeit in quite an interesting way!
    The matching cd transport looks just as good.
    http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SH-X1000.html

    Lovely bit of kit.
    Just a gorgeous looking combo. I bet they never come up for sale. (BTW upsampling and oversampling are not the same thing at all. Upsampling attempts to recreate higher frequencies that are not on the recording. It gives a 'fluffy' sound I'm not especially keen on).
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

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