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post #151 of 468
10/24/12 at 2:14pm

Oh, and it seems he mistook an older Meitner DAC2 for the modern M1.  

 

Source: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1340888393&openfrom&5&4#5


Edited by sphinxvc - 10/24/12 at 2:32pm
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post #152 of 468
10/26/12 at 3:56pm
My Concero shipped today.
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post #153 of 468
10/26/12 at 4:22pm

Looking forward to reading the Concero impressions!

 

The relevant DACs which I'd compare against the Concero are:

 

Eastern Electric MiniMax DAC

Wavelength Proton

Peachtree Dac-it (already mentioned by project86 earlier)

Yulong D18

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post #154 of 468
10/26/12 at 5:37pm
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I can't help with the Proton or the MiniMax, but I will compare it to the Yulong D18 and PeachTree DAC-IT. Also probably the Yulong D100 MKII, Matrix Quattro DAC, and a few others. Man this is going to be fun but take a lot of work!

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post #155 of 468
10/26/12 at 8:50pm
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Looking forward to reading the Concero impressions!

The relevant DACs which I'd compare against the Concero are:

Eastern Electric MiniMax DAC
Wavelength Proton
Peachtree Dac-it (already mentioned by project86 earlier)
Yulong D18

I don't have any of those. I'll be putting up against my Ayre QB-9.

Assuming it shows up on schedule, I will have it at the meet in Coronado on 11/3. It's a short flight, come on down. biggrin.gif
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post #156 of 468
10/26/12 at 9:18pm

I might be selling my invicta soon since I haven't been listening to my home setup in the past few months.  Feel free to let me know if anyone is interested in one.cool.gif

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post #157 of 468
10/27/12 at 6:42am

PMed.  smily_headphones1.gif

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post #158 of 468
10/27/12 at 2:01pm

Even the DACs you guys listed above would be really interesting to compare against :)  The Dac-it was high on my curiosity list since it became a Computer Audiophile recommended DAC, but I've seen a lot pop up used on the market over the last several months.  I'd imagine the Ayre would best the Concero, but I have that bias about how small the Concero box is.  I'm not advocating that Resonessence should pull a Shunyata, but I'm still wondering how much is lost with the Concero's form factor.

 

I need to find myself down to Socal one of these days :)  I travel a lot for work, but it's usually not to LA/SD.

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post #159 of 468
10/27/12 at 9:48pm
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Looking forward to reading the Concero impressions!

The relevant DACs which I'd compare against the Concero are:

Eastern Electric MiniMax DAC
Wavelength Proton
Peachtree Dac-it (already mentioned by project86 earlier)
Yulong D18

I do have a proton I'm just missing the concero haha
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post #160 of 468
10/28/12 at 8:18pm
At some point in the process I'll probably bring the Arcam rDAC home from the office and see how it does against the Concero.
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post #161 of 468
10/30/12 at 5:15pm

It's here!

 

400

 


 

400

 

 

 

And yes, it's reallly small (that's a new iPod Touch next to it)

 

400

 

 

 

Starting to listen. Impressions in a few days.

 

NOTE: It's not obvious from the discussion on page 4 of the manual, but the order of steps in the start-up process is muy importante (at least when your source is a Mac).  Shut down your music player software, then select the Concero from System Preferences/Sound, then relaunch your music player software, and you're good to go.  Leave your music player software open before and after you select the Concero, and you've got a very nice looking paper-weight.
 

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post #162 of 468
10/31/12 at 12:42am
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post #163 of 468
10/31/12 at 8:22am
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Looking good (and tiny)!
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post #164 of 468
10/31/12 at 9:25am

Nice pictures!  Looking forward to your impressions.

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post #165 of 468
11/1/12 at 8:19pm

Well, I guess I must like the Concero.  I just sold my QB-9.L3000.gif
 

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