Yes that would be interesting!
With all the upgrades and psu's you can stick on it Alan, it can sound pretty good, put a few of these together for people over the years plus Wayne's a nice fellow as well.
Coherent Systems
Real high end sound with musicality not hifi
After living with a few more modern dacs like Lavry, Rega, Audio-gd, I found no taste for oversampling and no need for USB. So it's a Meridian 563 fed by a chromecast in the little system and a Dax2se fed by a NAs though a cambridge sonata in the big room. No the last word in resolution but both soo musical, can see myself changing the players at some point but the dacs are staying, especially the AS.
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Main: Custom L75 "La Plancha", AudioCraft AC300, Ortofon MC3000 AnaMighty EAR 834P - PTP5 Schick 12" Cala 103.3 on HA1000 - pre AI Modulus 3A Audio Synthesis Passion - DAX2se - ARC VT60/Quad 909 - Virgo 2
Office: L78 Mayware Formula IV Ortofon MC10 super - Kenwood KT1100 - Acoustic Masterpiece AM-201or A&R A60 - Rogers LS3/5a
Workshop: Chromecast - Meridian 563 Dac - Audio Synthesis Passion - Quad 306 or 606ii - Spendor BC1
Current system:
RPi + Allo Digione
Beresford Caiman Seg & Dorado powered by 15v Linear PSU
Transcendent Sound Mini Beast OTL
Amptastic Mini-1
Klipsch KG4.5 Speakers with Titanium Diagphrams and Sonicap Cap upgrade
110aH Leisure Battery powers the Mini-1 & Digione
Mytek 8x192ADDA 8 channel mastering DAC for my 4-way active system. This is a design that is at least 13 years old using Dac chips (AD1955) in dual mono configuration that are even older. It's still in production as is the Dac chip. I'm very happy with it, but have an Okto Research PRO 8 coming for evaluation sometime this summer. It will be interesting to see how far DACs have progressed over the last 10 years or so. In absolute terms not a lot is my guess, but you can get a very good DAC for not a lot of money now.
I also have a Benchmark DAC1 HDR in a second system.
I own one DAC, Australian made DAC, Klein DAC mine is the older version with PCM1794
Amps: Technics SU-V9, SU-V8 (black and silver), V8X, V4X ( 2 black, 1 silver) , G50 and SU-500
Source:Technics SL-P990, P350, P477a,PG440a, Marantz CD40, NEC CD620 - TDA1541A, Philips CD753, Klein DAC, tuner and turntables Technics
Speakers: Technics SB-6, Coral CX-5, ESM bookself (seas tweeters), Celestion Sl-6 (copper domes)
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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
Yes, absolutely, the Mytek wouldn't stand a chance in a beauty contest!
What the Mytek has going for it (apart from its excellent SQ) is its functionality as it also has an 8-channel ADC. In addition to USB, there's 8 analogue inputs, 4 AES/EBU digital inputs which can also take spdif, 4 digital outputs, adjustable analogue input and output levels for each channel, ADC and DAC output meters which can be turned off. It is nice to be able to check that no clipping is taking place.
I don't have a date for the Okto to arrive yet - I was just told that it would be between late May and end of July as it's on a loan tour across Europe. I'm hoping I won't be on holiday when it comes
I'll definitely let you know how it sounds compared to the Mytek.
Tremendous
Look forward to it Sir.
We spoke at the Bristol show when I was exhibiting my Korus Server and remembered our conversation at the Nebo turn when you had your Nak active setup.
You were that “Neil Young looking guy” who knew his Hifi...
We spoke previously at Bristol in the bar about Steve Bell cartoons in the Guardian over a beer...good times.
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