Behringer Ultramatch PRO SRC2496

[Covenant]

Following a link I went to the Lampizator site. The guy who runs it reckons the best DAC, irrespective of price, he has come across is this ugly thing
http://www.lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/TRANSPORT/behringer/Behringer.html. Its a pro-studio piece of equipment and is less than a Standac.
Anyone tried it or know any more about it?

[Dave Cawley]

It's not PRO at all. You won't find it in any studio, maybe the village hall though!

Dave

[Covenant]

Pro-audio is the phrase he uses Dave-I guess a studio wouldn't use something that cheap.
Is it one of those finds that you need to nip in and buy before everyone spots it and the price goes up?

[DaveK]

I'm sure someone else has posted on here on Best Cheap Upgrade thread maybe (?) saying that the Lampizator was his best upgrade - I must have another look - anybody else see it?
Cheers,

PS: -
Found it - see link in alb's post (no. 2) in thread The Art of Sound Forum > Hi-Fi Studio & Trade > The Drawing Board
Pioneer DVD 575A
Cheers,

[jonesi]

I haven't heard the stock version of the SRC2496 but I have heard an Audiosmile modded DEQ2496 (http://www.audiosmile.co.uk/deq2496-885-0.html) in a four way bake off with a Cambridge Audio 840 CD player, Benchmark DAC1 and Lavry DA10. When we couldn't see which one one playing nobody could tell them apart! It's shame we didn't have one of Stan's DACs to listen to. I'm looking to upgrade my little Edirol UA-25 soundcard and the top contenders are the Caiman and the Audiosmile DEQ2496.

[Codifus]

Following a link I went to the Lampizator site. The guy who runs it reckons the best DAC, irrespective of price, he has come across is this ugly thing
http://www.lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/TRANSPORT/behringer/Behringer.html. Its a pro-studio piece of equipment and is less than a Standac.
Anyone tried it or know any more about it?

I have one. The DEQ 2496 and the SRC 2496 are well regarded as great DACs once modified. Out of the box they are just ho hum.

The pictures you show are of the "older" SRC 2496. My SRC 2496 turned out to be one of the newer revisions which has only one main circuit board with nearly everything on an IC, and hence, un-modifiable:(

This guy absolutely adores the Behringers and has done some very interesting stuff with them;

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze4c5pt/index.html

CD

[maxrob200]

I had an SRC2496 briefly and was quite impressed with the upsampling mode 24/96. It sounded pretty good but I had a problem with it overdriving the input on my amplfier so I looked around till I found a Beresford 7520 which IMO is a better sounding unit overall

[harrylime6]

The pictures you show are of the "older" SRC 2496. My SRC 2496 turned out to be one of the newer revisions which has only one main circuit board with nearly everything on an IC, and hence, un-modifiable:(

CD
Codifus - have you removed the circuit board from the enclosure and taken a peek at the underside of the board?
If you have, you will know that (for one reason or another) they've taken the components which formerly populated the top side of the old board and mounted them on the underside of the new board.
The components are (to a greater or lesser degree) in the same spot on the new board as they were on the old board ... only, this time, they are underneath.
The design remains essentially the same.
There are some changes but none so great as to throw one off the signal path so to speak.
Take a look for yourself and tell me what you think.
Good luck.

Sincerely,
harry