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Originally Posted by nopietns /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I guess we'd all like to hear more detailed impressions on the sound.
Have you had any other DACs/sources to compare it with?
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Is that directed at me?
In all honesty, I don't think that my ears or my audio memory are good enough to give accurate and reliable descriptions of sources. And I think I had already got pretty damn close to the limits of my best phones, which are Audio Technica AD900's. My only other good source is a Cambridge Audio 540Dv2
DVD player (but it still manages really good CD audio).
But even with all those things considered, soundstage from the Buffalo is ever-so-slightly wider, deeper and more defined than the 540. Much more detail as well......
almost too much compared to what I am used to. I can certainly hear more flaws in certain recordings. I might swap out the AD8610 in my amp for some OPA627 and see if it softens any.
Overall tone seems very good - I don't get the feeling that it is cold, or warm, or dark, or bright. Couldn't stand it if it was bright or cold - or worse, both at the same time! (hello MS-1 from iPod
)
I actually cased the whole thing up for the first time last night, and gave it a really good run (~5 hours straight) using optical from my Xbox360. Playing a very good XBLA game called Braid (which actually has
brilliant sound for a game) and the whole thing didn't skip a beat. The case got a fair bit warmer than I expected, so hopefully I don't have to un-case the whole thing and add more ventilation holes to the base