Lawrence001
03-12-2016, 21:02
I'm finally clearing out my best gear as family life has taken over and I am downgrading/shrinking my system and moving towards headphones for evening listening. My latest sacrifice is my Trichord Pulsar dac, the one with the dip switches at the back that let you select 18/20 bit operation, dither, jitter and polarity. It comes with the optional PSU upgrade and I have a receipt from the previous (first) owner to say it needed a small repair and while it was at Trichord it was also upgraded. I'll try and dig it out but I think the repair was a resistor and the upgrade was on the output caps.
It's a great natural sounding dac, I recall a review at the time saying this dac was the first that made CD a viable audiophile alternative to vinyl. When I got it I realised how good CD could sound. I found it had a particularly transparent sound with an original arcam alpha CD player as transport it really stood out amongst the transports I have used (I stupidly sold it for an "upgrade" to a DVD player and regretted it since ). It has seen off several attempts to "upgrade" to more modern dacs including an MF 3.24 and an Audio GD sabre dac.
It weighs a lot as the two boxes have a total of 3 toroidal transformers and the output transformer in the PSU is particularly heavy. So collection from North London please I'm just inside the M25. I would like £250 please. Sorry for the poor photo I'll do some better ones when I can find the time.
It's a great natural sounding dac, I recall a review at the time saying this dac was the first that made CD a viable audiophile alternative to vinyl. When I got it I realised how good CD could sound. I found it had a particularly transparent sound with an original arcam alpha CD player as transport it really stood out amongst the transports I have used (I stupidly sold it for an "upgrade" to a DVD player and regretted it since ). It has seen off several attempts to "upgrade" to more modern dacs including an MF 3.24 and an Audio GD sabre dac.
It weighs a lot as the two boxes have a total of 3 toroidal transformers and the output transformer in the PSU is particularly heavy. So collection from North London please I'm just inside the M25. I would like £250 please. Sorry for the poor photo I'll do some better ones when I can find the time.