korzena
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No love for Stockholm?
s1rrah,
This would be great! I am waiting for one since the first day Stockholm was announced.
I really wonder why there is so little information about the DAC that is successor of the famous DAC-Havana.
I've had a loaner Stockholm for a while now but am just now getting around to listening to it...
So far, I've only listened through optical and coaxial (will be demoing the synchronous and asynchronous USB once I've burnt the unit in for at least 200 hours....
But regarding coax/optical? And doing side by side A/B tests with my Havana (both DACS using JW396A tubes)? When fed to my Ray Sam Raptor amp (which thankfully has dual RCA inputs making A/B listening quite easy) and with Grado GS1000's... I can tell absolutely ZERO difference sonically...
Which is to say, the Stockholm (albiet expectedly as it shares the main architectural qualities of the Havana) sounds every bit as good as my Havana.
I will be doing a proper review in a month or so which will most likely focus on the USB listening aspects of the Stockholm since, as mentioned already, it sounds identical to my Havana.
I'm personally very curious to try the Asynchronous USB mode (set via firmware) as I've read many good things online about this technology.
More later...