astrostar59
BannedMember of the Trade: Aries Cerat Espana, Auriculares High-EndAKA Headstage, headphoneweekend
I see this DAC is using the AD1865 chip as Audio Note plus tubes. NOS. Does it have a filter?
$35,000 retail...will be on our audioprana.info if it isn't already.
Hello,
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$35,000 retail...will be on our audioprana.info if it isn't already.
The Kassandra II retails for €18000, priced as the Metronome Technologies C8+.
The Kassandra was compared by reviewers (Haute Fidélité) to the TotalDAC Twelve (€30000) and judged possibly better sounding.
Difficult to ask for a loan (60Kg). I think I will have to move to Paris (080 shop) to listen to it with some headphones and the VIVA 2A3.
Hello,
I will be able to bring my TotalDAC Four at least when listening at the Kassandra.
@astrostar59, yes the Lampizator can be also a good idea. My problem is that I will have to travel to Poland to listen to it and on another side rolling the tubes change the tone but have no impact on the harmonics.
for rich harmonics, you may like our new all out headphone amp from Trafomatic. There will be two versions, one for
planars and dynamic drivers and another for Stax and the like. We were going to have an outboard transformer for the Stax, but after hearing
one purpose made, it crushed us...so no outboard transformer.
The layout of the amp is 4 EML20b tubes feeding 4 NOS Type 50 tubes. Talk about tone density and harmonics. the type 50 having more drive and tone than even a 45 tube. It kills. It's a 2 chassis affair with nano tech in the transformers. Basically, no cost was denied if it improved the sound. The idea was to best the sound of the Eimac 75tl head amp made for me. (the 75tl is so rare, it can't be a commercial product...try finding a matched pair on line) well, based on my last trip to serbia, the new design is better than the 75tl...it is also larger. but it plays with such tone and density, you forget whether you are listening to speakers or headphones. you're just listening.
no other specifics just now. we haven't priced it out yet nor have we finalized all the parts, but it will be costly. it was made for someone like me, who has too many headphones and too many sources, and needs to hear all of them. I'm sure I'll get the stax model too, as i like my Take-T and 009s, but that will be another 6 months.