[teknorob23]

Thank you, interesting that the Tambaqui was found to be good as a preamp. I may give this another go. I am wondering if this is a firmware issue and if there has been a couple of tweaks to resolve the two-dimensional feel I found with the DAC lossless digital volume control.

Yes quite surprising as that’s not my experience. I found it was pretty mediocre as preamp,

 

[RobertSM]

Does anyone know the output voltage of the Tambaqui via XLR?

 

[Miller]

6V is what I have configured, 2V and .6V are the other options available.

 

[JamieMcC]

Apologies for not posting the link to the Stereophile article earlier I was struggling using my phone to post without my glasses.

 

[Roasty]

A friend was kind enough to lend me his Tambaqui.

Mola vs Holo vs Rockna...

Round 1... Fight!

 

[xtr4]

A friend was kind enough to lend me his Tambaqui.

Mola vs Holo vs Rockna...

Round 1... Fight!

Can't hardly wait for your impressions.

 

[alekc]

A friend was kind enough to lend me his Tambaqui.

Mola vs Holo vs Rockna...

Round 1... Fight!

Brilliant Looking forward for all your impressions @Roasty

Seems like you have a great weekend

 

[ThanatosVI]

A friend was kind enough to lend me his Tambaqui.

Mola vs Holo vs Rockna...

Round 1... Fight!

I expect in depth comparison to the Wavelight (when used as DAC to your Wa33)

You made comparisons with Dave and May in the past looking forward to this one.
(Fun fact, the guy I bought my Octave V16 from used a Tambaqui as well)

 

[teknorob23]

A friend was kind enough to lend me his Tambaqui.

Mola vs Holo vs Rockna...

Round 1... Fight!

A friend was kind enough to lend me his Tambaqui.

Mola vs Holo vs Rockna...

Round 1... Fight!

Looking forward to your impressions, but if the Tambaqui wins you’re going to have to get your hands on a musetec da500. I sold my MM after hearing it.

 

[xtr4]

Looking forward to your impressions, but if the Tambaqui wins you’re going to have to get your hands on a musetec da500. I sold my MM after hearing it.

Wow, now you have me intrigued.

 

[Wfolio]

Using Mola Mola mostly in speaker setup.

 

[Roasty]

Looking forward to your impressions, but if the Tambaqui wins you’re going to have to get your hands on a musetec da500. I sold my MM after hearing it.

Wait.. U sold the Mola??

 

[xtr4]

Using Mola Mola mostly in speaker setup.

Seems like the KEF KC62 sub is every where

 

[QuantumKat]

This is the comparison I really need the most

 

[teknorob23]

Wait.. U sold the Mola??

I wasn’t planning to. I thought I’d found the grail, then a chap on audiogon who does a bit of beta testing for us who has a very high end system inc the may and a mojo audio dac, said he’d heard this new Chinese dac with an amazing power management set up. My business partner spoke to musetec and ordered one. I took my mola mola down to compare it, confidently expecting the Tambaqui in a different league. I took all of one a-b comparison to realise it out performed the MM in pretty much all areas of performance. The MM’s stand out feature for me was layer separation and staging and the 005 made it sound flat and congested. Overall clarity of tone and detail is just up a level making the MM sound veiled by comparison. Front to back depth is a show stealer.

The systems we compared it on:

2 Channel:

Our network set up > 3D Lab streamer > musetec or Tambaqui > Benchmark hpa4 preamp >