[Matthew Willims]

Well, I’ve a Musician Aquarius on the way from their Aliexpress store. It’s replacing a Abbas Audio DAC 2.2SE which is the best Ive I’ve run to date. The only reason I sold the Abbas is that it seemed wasteful to use up tube life when watching TV for kids shoes etc. If it can come within spotting difference of the Abbas I’ll be one happy camper.

 

[Palyodgree]

Well, I’ve a Musician Aquarius on the way from their Aliexpress store. It’s replacing a Abbas Audio DAC 2.2SE which is the best Ive I’ve run to date. The only reason I sold the Abbas is that it seemed wasteful to use up tube life when watching TV for kids shoes etc. If it can come within spotting difference of the Abbas I’ll be one happy camper.

I was just notified by Aliexpress that my Aquarius just shipped,.We’ll have to start a new topic on this dac .

 

[wric01]

675 black friday, i'm getting on the draco. Fuse
upgrade will most definitely uplift this budget dac to respectable mid level of pegasus or pontus.

 

[T 1000]

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[T 1000]

Don't have too high expectations from the Fuse, it will bring a clearer edge which will be reflected in a cleaner sound image (as a fine tuning on a hubble telescope), the changes are subtle but I was delighted.

 

[Matthew Willims]

Got a Synergistic Research Purple coming for mine. Made a very nice improvement in the last DAC, and my Pass Aleph Mini power amp…. The difference is not as great as SR claim but it was an overall too too bottom improvement in all the areas they claim. Worthwhile.

 

[T 1000]

I think it also depends on the sensitivity of the headphones. I couldn't detect that change on Arya(headphones with clear sound and large sound stage), Senn. is more sensitive to fine changes in the system.

 

[Matthew Willims]

Ah, despite my posting here….. I don’t really use headphones. I’m more of a floor standing speaker kind of guy. I do like my Monolith M1060C cans but just prefer speakers is all.

 

[T 1000]

Of course, when you have options, speakers are a better choice

 

[TheManko]

A follow up question(s): which is the best site to purchase one from?

I bought mine from Audiophonics, a French online store. I've bought loads of stuff from them over the past couple years like op amps, cables, the Pegasus and Audio GD DI-20. They're good.

About input lag. I've done plenty of gaming with the Pegasus, and I've tried to see if I could notice any kind of variation in input lag on the different inputs. I couldn't notice any lag, so it should hopefully be good enough.

 

[wric01]

Ashido paypal f the f ing tax and duties of these war mongering governments.
https://aoshida-audio.com/products/musician-draco-r2r-decoder

 

[Ludique]

Audiophonics is definately the best option for anyone in EU.

And the prices have surely gone up in a year.

 

[rettib2001]

I live in Bordeaux where Audiophonics is based, before the pandemic I used to just drive 10 minutes and pick things up directly I was great.

They didn’t have the Pegasus in silver and would have to order it… given the difference in price and the fact that they would just order it from Aoshida anyway I cut out the middleman and did it myself.

Not looking forward to having to pay the postman 22.5% in tax and handling…..

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

 

[bouscadie]

here is ok too : https://www.hifistudio79.nl/product/musician-pegasus-r2r-dac-nos/

 

[Zaurux]

I'm starting with this forum but I don't know where to go...

I tried to use a RPI4 as a streamer to evaluate the quality.
Well, it's impossible to detect the Pegasus.
The RPI4 works. It detects a portable Ibasso dac on the usb very well.
I used several distributions and I stayed with the latest DietPi and its Diepi-config utility.
I even thought that RPI4 was undervolted. No.
If I unplug the Pegasus, the USB leds go out.
If I plug it into my Allo USBridge (Rpi3+ Gentoo).

GentooPlayerRpi ~ # aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Audio [USB HiRes Audio], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Everything works fine... I'm looking for but don't understand.

On RPI4... nada !!