[windwolf447]

I don't really think the micro details will lost in good designed Delta-Simga chips DAC, I will say those details don't sound as real as a R2R one.

 

[coli]

Not sure if we are hearing the same thing. It's a buzz/vibration that I find to be very annoying.
 
Edit: at this point I think it's a problem with the recording, around 50% of piano recording got this annoying low level buzz, most are at the barely recognizable level but a few are quite bad, but I got other piano recordings with no such buzz at all.
 
I think it's the mic or the mic holder vibrating in sympathy with the piano that got recorded into the track... (and/or it's me switch to a pro monitor that enables me to hear them at last...) Another possibility is this is distortion from the 2 DAC summing inside the Pavane.
 
Another thing I noticed recently, fripSide needs to redo her CD releases, flat as hell, what a horrible mixing/mastering job.

 

[Joeybgood]

Nice review. Compares Pavane directly to Aqua La Scala MK II(which he owns)
 
http://www.the-ear.net/review-hardware/metrum-acoustics-pavane-digital-analogue-converter-dac

 

[Joeybgood]

  Nice review. Compares Pavane directly to Aqua La Scala MK I(which he owns)
 
http://www.the-ear.net/review-hardware/metrum-acoustics-pavane-digital-analogue-converter-dac

MK II that is

 

[worldcat]

Both are good.  I would like to try the Pavane.

 

[worldcat]

I wonder how the Pavane stacks up to the Totaldac d1 dual.

 

[windwolf447]

I wonder how the Pavane stacks up to the Totaldac d1 dual.

To me the totaldac has a more vivid sounding, slightly less bass and a richer mid range. The tone is quite different. But the depth of the soundstage of totaldac is a little bit better than Pavane.

 

[astrostar59]

To me the totaldac has a more vivid sounding, slightly less bass and a richer mid range. The tone is quite different. But the depth of the soundstage of totaldac is a little bit better than Pavane.

Interesting. I wonder how the TotalDAC D1 Tube MK2 sounds? Having tubes in the output can allow some nice system tuning which at this level gets more and more important IMO. Stax 009s for example are seriously transparent and ask for a very smooth front end yet require detail and treble extension as well.
 
I changed the driver tube in my Audio Note 4.1 this week, and it changed the quality of the treble more than I could have realised. The tube I used is a Mullard ECL82 NOS 1950s. Warm and smooth yet extended.
 
I think Arnaud on here has the D1 Dual and the 009s + BHSE? Great system IMO.

 

[worldcat]

To me the totaldac has a more vivid sounding, slightly less bass and a richer mid range. The tone is quite different. But the depth of the soundstage of totaldac is a little bit better than Pavane.

So you would say the totaldac is better?  What do you mean by more vivid?

 

[preproman]

Are there anymore Pavane impressions out there?

 

[windwolf447]

Vivid means I feel like the sound from the totaldac is more colorful. Just a feeling. And yes the tatoldac d1-dual is a bit better. Pavane is awesome but still not good enough to defeat something that almost triple times more expensive.

 

[windwolf447]

Too less people out there own a pavane.

 

[sensui123]

I wouldn't judge stuff via price in the audio market of all places....has some meaning but most of the time way too subjective to say one is better simply because it cost x times more.  But I'm hoping to be surprised when I finally get that Pavane.  Supposed to ship this week we'll see.

 

[worldcat]

Yeah i just think it is not that many people out there with them.

 

[Articnoise]

  Are there anymore Pavane impressions out there?

 

While waiting more impressions on Pavane. How is your EMM Labs sounding?