Your DA-06 sounds better than the TT2 to me Mac.
That's great to hear! I'm just saying that it does go to show how certain components can sound different in different settings and systems.
I think perhaps the DA06 wasn't the best match with my Accuphase amps and Harbeth speakers.... too much of a good thing
Mac
Agreed, I had the TT2 + Scaler here and tried it against the Bartok, not a lot in it. For me the Bartok edged it, so far it’s my fave streamer/dac, I've tried a few over the last couple years.From my listening at the Munich show, I'd suggest that he TT2 needs the MScaler to approach the Bartok in terms of sound quality.
Since ditching my Naim CDS2 I've had a hugo1 then a hugo2 and now a TT2.
Each time there has been a distinct uplift in quality. I've finally succumbed to buying a streamer, the Zenith Mk3 and finally this is way better than my CD front end system ever was.
now I just need to get a supercap for my Snaxo and I'll be done (for 2021...)
I’m surprised Badger748 got rid of his Bartok. It looked like a good center to a slimmed down system given being used to high end.
Mr Badger here. I sold all my higher-end system, so the Bartok was massively out of balance with the rest of the new stuff. It made sense to sell at the time, when you add into the mix certain other issues and a house move. I'd love to have another, and if/when I get the money together + if I actually want to spend that sort of money on hifi, the Bartok would be the very first thing i'd get again. It is a stupendous bit of kit.
Thanks!Sorry to hear this Badger, but sometimes life just gets in the way... good luck with what ever you do in the future.
Mac
Mr Badger here. I sold all my higher-end system, so the Bartok was massively out of balance with the rest of the new stuff. It made sense to sell at the time, when you add into the mix certain other issues and a house move. I'd love to have another, and if/when I get the money together + if I actually want to spend that sort of money on hifi, the Bartok would be the very first thing i'd get again. It is a stupendous bit of kit.
That was the goal - we could all use it - and we do, as the living room and kitchen are next to each other, but open plan, sort of!I probably didn’t put my point too well. I just remember you saying you wanted kit the whole family could access easily. I had this picture of you all sitting in the same room, with all having the same access to a world of music for a tenner a month and inflicting your generational taste on each other. A bit of fun at Christmas type of thingy.
It’s not the sort of thing you could contemplate on my cheap skate Pi based system which forgets its unique IP address at the drop of a hat
If you can find a used Chord QBD76, give it a try. I never thought music could sound so organic and real through a DAC. It sounds more like vinyl than digital with the Chord. The QBD76 made my Musical Fidelity M1 DAC sound broken, no joke. I immediately sold the MF M1 DAC once I experienced the 'Chord sound'.
It has been 3 or 4 years since i got the Chord into the system. I have now upgraded my entire system(amp, speakers and cabling) and the Chord DAC still remains. The power cord that's connected to the Chord DAC now costs more than the DAC itself, but I'm still keeping the Chord. Although it's not a DAVE/MScaler, it's a keeper in my system.