David's sources were a Voyd turntable with an AN 1s arm, the IO Two cartridge at the whopping output of. 05mv (no typo) and the S3 mc step-up transformer. This was all being fed into M5 Phono stage. Next was the digital side of things and the CDT Two transport with the DAC 3.1x. The sources were fed into the Quest Silver Signature 300B monoblocks. There were a few rooms that stood out to me back then so I decided that over the next couple of And finally, we listened to all of this through the Audio Note E/SPe and the K/SPe's. Years that I would review some of my favorite pieces. This brings me to the Audio Note 2.1x signature DAC. Last year, I decided to contact Peter to see if he were up for a review of one of his mid-priced DAC's. Not long after, I received a relatively large, well packed box what contained the 2.1x sig.Īs you well know, a DAC takes the best part of a couple of hundred hours of run in before it begins to settle down. I decided to plug it into the digital output of my Arcam 8se and let things run its course. I had to chuckle to myself when I started the run in. ![]() My poor little Arcam keeps getting its arse stomped by these tubed designs I keep setting next to it. I really don't mean to pick on it because the Arcam 8se actually sounds pretty darned good as a stand-alone opamp based CD player. One thing is for sure, I'd bet the guys at Arcam have put my picture up on a board and throw arrows at it. After the DAC had run in, I decided to test it on my 2A3 and Lowther based system.ĭuring set up I decided to plug my digital out from my AH! Njoe Tjoeb into the 2.1x sig, then run both outputs into my NEC AVX-910 so I could do a true A/B of the two DAC's. It? This is the kind of stuff you guys love to read about, one piece of gear kicking another's butt, mano et mano. Well, things didn't work out quite like planned. When I did the A/B I'd be damned if I could hear much of a difference. ![]() ![]() Guessing, it was maybe 5% or so in favor of the 2.1x sig. Well, I contacted Peter to let him know what I was hearing (or not hearing in my case). Personally, I knew it wasn't the PM2A's or my amp but I did suspect my pre might have not been up to the challenge. So just recently, I upgraded my Korato preamps. Not to a different pre,īut I took it down and replaced the coupling and output caps with Chris VenHaus' Teflon V-Caps and OIMP caps.
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