New Audio-gd DAC: NFB-1 LETS MOVE TO PEETE'S THREAD ON THIS?

Nice!  Who is going to be the first guinea pig?  I would, but I just bought a Violectric HPA v181 to play with....I assume it will probably be out for sale in a couple of weeks or so.  I would be very interested in how it compares to my Ref5 original dac from Audio-gd.  Depending on the the first reviews of it I most likely will be buying one.  Kingwa is killing my wallet !

so this price will be higher then the normal Ref-5 ??

I don't understand above person if you have a normale REF-5 and you want this version is not better get Ref-7 ??

ACSS is supposed to be better then XLR when matched with a Audio-GD amp right?

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Originally Posted by Bojamijams 

ACSS is supposed to be better then XLR when matched with a Audio-GD amp right?

From my personal testing and listening I found it to edge out the XLR, but not by some huge margin or anything.  Ref5-->acss/xlr-->Roc is what I judged by....they are very close.    

I'm very tempted by a NFB-1+Phoenix+Balanced JH-13 combo

Finally . I can't see the price. Do you know it?

Ok, enough is enough.  How many DAC's is this guy going to pop out?

From what i gathered in the are audio gd dacs all that thread, this ESS version isnt as good as the PCM1704UK version, so if youve already got the ref5 DSP no reason to get this one as well...

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Originally Posted by SoupRKnowva 

From what i gathered in the are audio gd dacs all that thread, this ESS version isnt as good as the PCM1704UK version, so if youve already got the ref5 DSP no reason to get this one as well...

Nobody has heard it yet have they?  

Ref5 Sabre 32

Ref5 DSP-1

Here is a look at them side by side.  

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Originally Posted by TigzStudio 

Nobody has heard it yet have they?  

i incorrectly remembered what i read in that thread, my bad, what was said was that it wouldnt be as good as the Ref7, which was stated by kingwa in an email to iPodPJ.

lol thats funny, i was just going back and forth between those two exact same pics...im wondering what happened to the missing capacitors?? 
 

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Originally Posted by SoupRKnowva 

i incorrectly remembered what i read in that thread, my bad, what was said was that it wouldnt be as good as the Ref7, which was stated by kingwa in an email to iPodPJ.

 

lol thats funny, i was just going back and forth between those two exact same pics...im wondering what happened to the missing capacitors?? 
 

I noticed the missing caps as well, maybe it was a picture of an unfinished build.  The pics might be updated once he actually has it for sale?  Who knows.
 

I was planning on using the NFB1+Phoenix in ACSS mode so gain shouldn't be a problem :)
 

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Originally Posted by tim3320070 

If you did a Phoenix with JH13, you better get the gain reduced a ton- Phoenix has a lot of output in balanced mode.