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the DACs i tried, Eastern Electronics plus, cambridge DAC magic, Beresford Caiman, and a denmark lable name forgotten.
by the way, i used this system setup accompanied with different DACs, the Audinst was the least punchy one, but Audinst is a lot punchier than Ciunas.
Continuing the discussion of how ciunas compares to dacs like the PWD mk2, and to make up for my daft response to M13's post, this is the one review I found detailed and informative concerning the jkdac32, by Bruce Brown of Puget sound studios. High praise and useful. If ciunas is only slightly better that's saying a lot.
This man spent 100k on DACs? And his conclusion is that the JKenny is as good as anything under $5000?
This insane man lives right near too... perhaps I should "visit" his studio and have a life changing experience. LOL.
He says that he *invested* $100k on D to A and A to D (whatever all that includes). My reading is that he has an audio business, not that he's tested $100k of different dacs.
Correct. I wasn't impressed by those numbers, which I guess merely means he has an adequately (? or well?) equipped studio.
Rather that he bothered to go into some detail - more than most - about what he heard and how it compared to recordings his studio mastered.
I was going to google him to find out 'who' he is. Then I remembered this is head-fi. Who is anyone?
Another consideration is he arguably looks for different qualities than your typical audiophile, assuming such a beast exists. This might dilute the value of his impressions as he might not be familiar with the usual home-audiophile dac.
The Ciunas sounds like another device in a sudden, no settings were changed, except the burnt in time.
Now the symphonies sound so powerful and punchy.
natural, organic, refreshed, detailed.
the KS, DSOUND, ASIO outputs clearer sound than DS.
This comment will be debated and so take with the usual. Capacitors need time to get to their optimum performance. This being the reserve power source, it has an impact on the sound. Uncle Erik would tell you that a capacitor is formed in it's first charge. But I've read on capacitors by Black Gate and they said it take hundreds of hours to get fully formed and conducting to design. My experience is the same. It takes several hundred hours to get the stability needed. TVs are something that is a good case in point. I bought a new plasma last year. I purchased an ISF calibration with it. They told me to run the tv for at least 8 hours a day for 30 days and then they would come out. The reasoning is all the electronics will be stable and the calibration will hold. Being new, the burn in will have an impact on the calibration.