LOL, you know, really not sure as not normally a digital type person but I know it is a 'Lake West' thingy. Someone, somewhere is going to have to enlighten me
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LOL, you know, really not sure as not normally a digital type person but I know it is a 'Lake West' thingy. Someone, somewhere is going to have to enlighten me
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I had the same reaction Shaun when I got my Audio Note Dac
I have been trying to 'do without' the AN Dac and free up £400+ of cash but every time I try I just cannot bring myself to do it as it really is the best I have heard cd and it doesn't make a huge difference what transport I use with it, currently using the Pioneer PD-S505 Precision to great effect...
I tried a Beresford but it didn't cut it when compared to the AN, but I guess you wouldn't expect it to at the cost difference
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Should one ever come up for sale Bev. £400 might (just) buy you a Monarchy Audio M22 series DAC. And that will outperform the AN DAC.Originally Posted by Ninanina
I had the same reaction Shaun when I got my Audio Note Dac
I have been trying to 'do without' the AN Dac and free up £400+ of cash but every time I try I just cannot bring myself to do it as it really is the best I have heard cd and it doesn't make a huge difference what transport I use with it, currently using the Pioneer PD-S505 Precision to great effect...
I tried a Beresford but it didn't cut it when compared to the AN, but I guess you wouldn't expect it to at the cost difference
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Yes I've kept my eye out for a Monarchy Dac but as you say they don't come up very often.. I'd really like to compare it to the AN
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The 'Lake West' thingy could just be updated firmware...hence the different screen display etc.LOL, you know, really not sure as not normally a digital type person but I know it is a 'Lake West' thingy. Someone, somewhere is going to have to enlighten me
http://mdac.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page
As for the hardware mods JW's MDAC upgrades continued to evolve...in order of SQ/cost
'Sovereign', L1, L2, L2 'Toy', L2 'Fusion'...and now he's onto the FDAC (which is suffering badly from scope creep)
I bailed out at L2 'Toy'...
FWIW; Mine was one of the early 'black' MDACs, when upgrading it JW noticed the bulging caps issue, thankfully this was rectified during the upgrade...
Cheers, Will
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It turns out that to display the 'Lake West' sign on logo the DAC has to have been upgraded by John Westlake himself at his business wherever that is. That indicates to me that I actually bought a better device than was pointed out to me when I paid for it. Can't be bad.
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I can now consign vinyl to second place.
Time will tell
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Quite impressed with the little minidac im using, although ive not yet tried it in main system yet. Must try this when fit to see how it fares. Certainly good on headphones
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LOL, I know that to get anywhere near the sound I am getting from CD via vinyl I would probably have to spend over £2k. That is just not going to happen due to some heavily rose tinted specs. I am therefore confined to accepting that my vinyl playing is just OK. That will have to do because the budget for a vinyl upgrade is currently at zero. Way more important than that would be an upgrade of loudspeaker. So, with that in mind, vinyl is now second to CD.I can now consign vinyl to second place.
Time will tell
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By 'Lake West' sign on logo, I presume you mean the screen...
That indicates that the firmware version is vA.04 or above...from the wiki I linked to earlier
vA.04[edit]
First announced in #post1745472.
Screen auto dimming after 20s of no user action.
Available options are:
Always on
Auto dimming (Full illumination on key press, then slowly dims)
Auto suppress (Full illumination on key press, then slowly dims to display "L A K E . W E S T")
Mine was displaying Lake West long before JW got his hands on it...
Cheers, Will
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