SEG with new Dorado
I bought a new DAC off Stan a SEG 2 weeks before Christmas,to replace my older Caimen which went to a family member, at the time I considered getting the Dorado PSU Enhancer, but decided to fly under the radar and keep the spend down to £200+ and then get the Dorado in January.
Well I ordered a Durado up yesterday from Stan, and once again first class service with a knock on the door from the postman before 11am this morning.
Lets get to the unboxing bit first, I was surprised opening up the box to see how small the Dorado is, I had visions after looking on Stans website that it would be around the same size as my 15v Linear PSU, its not, its like the size of a mobile phone from 5yrs ago but twice as thick.
Instructions read not that you need to but I was interested in what the colours of the LED were and the status it showed? Once wired up and switched on it did sit on Red for quite a while ( I did read that on another post here) I rang Stan and he said yes normal. The LED changed to Blue and away we went. I ran through some tracks I'm familiar with (Eva Cassidy Fields Of Gold) (Fleetwood Mac) and to be honest I was sceptical of what difference the little black box would or could make? How wrong I was!
The tracks on female voices where they hit the high note had become clearer, the bass threw me completely I got up twice during the session to check the sub was turned off, the bass is tighter and intergrated into the music and the separation of instruments gave tracks I know well a completely different sound stage. Some four hours later and trying everything from Female Country to Jazz to Military Marches I am certain the Dorado has either burnt in or I have ? It now sounds fuller if thats the word where as out the box it sounded Lean, but thats saying lean out the box compared to 4 hrs later.
I have to say that if you have one of the latest SEG DAC's and your not running a Dorado and like me thought what would it do ? My advice is GET ONE !
Thanks for the First Class Service Stan.
Amp Rega Elex-R
CDP Denon DCD 520
Tuner Teac T-R650 Dab/FM
Music Player Pioneer N30 Network Player
DAC Rega Dac-R
Speakers Q Acoustic Concept 40s
Speaker Cable Current is Rega FSC Quattro , Fisual S-Flex Studio 2.5mm / Ortofon SPK 100
Interconnects Van Damme Silver Plated OFC Pro Classic XKE CDP/Tuner & Solid Silver Cyro 99.99% Pure, Dac To Amp
Headphones AKG K550 mk3
SUB BK XLS 200