I heard this new Music Hall dac last week at Ahead Stereo in Los Angeles. It was paired with a new NAD amp and a pair of B&W CM7 speakers. We did an A/B test with their $2000 Marantz CD player, then apple lossless files out of my MacBook Pro. It was almost impossible to hear the difference. It was much better than the DAC in their older Music Hall Maven receiver. I did not try the built-in headphone amp but my understanding is that it's not great. I will go back and try it out though.
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MBP > Lavry DA11 > DNA Sonett > HD650, RS-1
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