Recent content by Mozart

Thankfully the obsolence is built in and costs no extra. Manufacturers are good like this.

The Kondo stuff is undoubtedly made very well but I’m equally concerned by the shielding of such. No good splashing the cash on painstakingly made cables if they lack sufficient shielding as this affects the signal architecture between devices. Your mobile phone can affect a monitor if close...

PSI A25M. After listening to over 30 speakers this is as honest and rich in colour as one can get. Phenomenal.

I don’t think it’s an accident that on audiophile forums, people are wising up to the nonsense of perpetually better DACs. A problem that was resolved 20+ years ago but somehow according to the hifi press and marketeers keeps giving like the stone that keeps bleeding. Deep down we all this cycle...

Very interesting discussions. Great thread. So many swear that upsampling and reclocking revitalises digital with a more natural tone and wider more complex soundstage whilst in the opposite camp people swear by non-oversampling tda1451 with a few caps, a transformer and tubes. Recent discussion...

You make it sound like the 1940s Manhattan project or the invention of antibiotics. Yes, he probably has been wasting his time. You have swallowed the marketing coolaid. Doubt there is much to under/overestimate. It’ll sound much like all other DACs with a marginally different flavour, not...

So it’s not necessarily better whatever that means. It’s been done for parts sourcing issues on the horizon. Most computers can now upscale easily. You don’t need a “seriously powerful computer”. Upscaling despite what audiophiles say is not an onerous task. We’re not exactly using AI to model...

Fingers crossed it won’t sound like crushed glass across a blackboard like their previous incarnations.

Agree. Very unoriginal. The biggest determinant of sonics is the power supply and output stage. For this kind of money, it’ll have to be something special in these departments, yet I suspect it will be super-prosaic.

Just found interior shot - the build quality and design is shocking and done as cheaply as possible. If it sounds good and brings joy that is great but at £1000 for what can’t be more than £50-75 work of parts I am struggling to see VFM.

i know this is a bit tangential but why not just buy a Tascam or Teac machine - used the world over by studios, radio stations, halls, churches and public venues and will last for many many years.

Trying to get rid of the brittle glassy sound the CD does.

I’m actually more after the digital bits like transport and DAC. After a liquid DAC that doesn’t sound like majority of other DACs that seem to sound near identical.

Heard from folk that Vitus’s focus is veering away from listener fatigue whilst preserving the detail, decay and holographic soundstage and strong bass control. Has anyone direct experience of these brands and what was your take please?

If you like AN why not digital feed an AN DAC from thr streamer?