What's Your Dac?

[struth]

I have 2 very good DACs, a Bryston BDA-1 which has rave reviews and is indeed a good DAC but I find most of my listening is via my Wadia 15 although it is redbook only. This Wadia uses 4X PCM63 chips which is the older R2R topology and to my ears, in my system, makes music like no other.

Mr. C in post 4 of this long thread who owns the same DAC seems to have a similar regard for it. I am selling both these DACs so if anybody is interested in one or the other, or both send me a PM. I am not sure if this is the correct place to mention the price other then to say the Wadia is a bargain.

what are u replacing them with charles

[sailor]

Hi Grant,

I intend to downsize and am looking for a Moon or perhaps another Wadia pre, dac, amp and streamer all in one but have to put that on hold for awhile. I need to send some money back to South Africa.

Will make do with my reasonably competent Oppo 103

[struth]

Hi Grant,

I intend to downsize and am looking for a Moon or perhaps another Wadia pre, dac, amp and streamer all in one but have to put that on hold for awhile. I need to send some money back to South Africa.

Will make do with my reasonably competent Oppo 103

Got an oppo 103 myself. Those are nice dacs and if priced right will sell quite quickly I think.

[Landloper]

Joanna, the Schiit Modi3 is a noticeable step up from the FiiO D3. It has higher resolution with more detail, tighter bass, and clearer highs. The D3 has a smooth and pleasing sound that is easy to listen to. If you want to hear more from your program material the Modi 3 is the clear winner in my experience.

Result, then....;D

[doodoos]

Had a Metrum on my shortlist for a new dac but as they’ve just gone bust I’ll give them a miss.

[Old boy]

Have one of these on order now. Not at all too shabby. https://www.aquahifi.com/la_scala.html

I’d be really interested in your though on this dac in due course

[ijrussell]

I've had my DiDiT DAC212SE since October 2016. It was expensive but it sounds nice and musical and has a lot of inputs including HDMI I2S which my Jay's Audio CDT-2 MKII transport outputs. I have tried other DACs but I keep coming back to it.

[Blueflash]

I have had Wadia 16, Meridian 508 24, Audionote 2.1 Signature kit, Naim CD5i.

I now have a DDDAC heavily modified with my own power supply and self made PCB because I wanted to run 16 Dac boards.

I started off with 4 Dac boards, then tried 8 which was a good upgrade, so I thought what the heck, lets see if I can get 16 of them to work.
After some to an fro emails withe Doede the designer, the 16 Dac boards are working superbly.

Big wide soundstage, excellent separation and sounding like a good analogue master tape source.

A lot of work but well worth the effort.

[struth]

Nice work.... Lots of spare dacs left tho

[Blueflash]

Ha ! I sold them on to finance the project