astrostar59
BannedMember of the Trade: Aries Cerat Espana, Auriculares High-EndAKA Headstage, headphoneweekend
I think you will end up missing the Hex in the long run. I sold my BDA-2 pretty quickly after hearing the Hex for a few days...there was no going back.
I agree. The source is as important as the headphones when you get to this level. IMO the reason the HEX sounds so good is the No Oversampling architecture of it, plus the parts qualities in the PS and output boards. I gave up on the over sampling BS a few years ago, it makes the sound so synthetic and plastic. NOS DACs get closer to the source IMO.
The Audio Note DACs are also amazing NOS types, plus they have tubes, which I think gets them to an even higher level.