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Member Reviews: Violectric DAC V800

project86

Top quality DAC for less than top quality price

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Pros: Stunningly clear, transparent sound, excellent digital volume control, perfect size for headphone setup

Cons: USB does not support 88.2kHz sample rate (but DOES do the much more common 96kHz)

My full review:   http://www.head-fi.org/t/574418/review-violectric-v800-dac#post_7799058   In summary, this is one of the best DACs I've ever experienced, which is surprising since it only costs $1300. That's a lot of money, but actually pretty low for a top class DAC, which is what I consider this to be. In my personal experience I rank it below the Resonessense Invicta ($4k), MBL 1511E ($8k), and very very slightly below the now discontinued Anedio D1 ($1230), but above the Audio GD Reference 7 ($1900), Esoteric D70 ($6500), Wavelength Cosine ($3500), and of course all the usual suspects from Lavry, Benchmark, Grace Design, Musical Fidelity, Cambridge Audio, etc. ...
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Zombie_X

A Quality German DAC, The V800

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Pros: Incredibly neutral sound that is very linear.

Cons: Non so far!

          Hi all, Zombie-X here again with another review for the good boys and girls of Head-Fi.org. I've been playing around with this DAC for about a month now and I figured it's time to give you all a nice, straight to the point review of it.    I would like to take the time before this review to give a shout out to Robert at Aphrodite Cu29 for supplying this DAC for review. He's a good guy in the crazy audio world and knows his stuff. I was swayed to get the DAC, not by his words of praise (well maybe a little), but rather by how it sounds.   I would like to say that during this review I will be comparing this DAC to...
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