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Thanks. This is also an older DAC. Anyone has insight that it may be replaced soon?
has anyone suggested the Massdrop x Grace Design SDAC?
Welcome to the forum and thank you very much for the kind words.It's been a pleasure reading and lurking so many pages and threads. What you are doing, amirm, is awesome. I registered for few reasons. To thank you for the dedication and the hard work - measuring and buying all these DACs; to ask how's the Audio G-D measurement coming along; and, last but not least, to ask (even though you already have a pile of DACs) if you have considered measuring the Pro-Ject DAC Box S2+ which is a DAC only Pro-Ject item and uses one ESS9038s, unlike the S2 AMP+DAC that uses two.
It seems to be the only Pro-Ject DAC not on Amazon. There are a few sellers on Ebay from Italy and Austria but none ship to the USA. The best I could find is:Welcome to the forum and thank you very much for the kind words.
As to S2+, I have searched as with S2 when it came out, I only see it available online from European sources. Do you know if it is available to be in US?
But yes, I am interested in measuring it given the good experience with S2 if we can locate one.
Will doThanks. The dealer list is I am sure for their turntables. Maybe I reach out to them and see if they sell me one direct as a person in the industry. Let me get through the current backlog of products to review and I will then do that. Please remind me in a few weeks if I forget.
The Massdrop amp won't be shipped at least for another 8 months. Hopefully there are some takers of the Monoprice ones instead.A couple of members are getting the thx amp so I will be testing it when it arrives.
I wanted to get one as well but 31 Oct... we could all be dead by then or something else, equally unpleasantThe Massdrop amp won't be shipped at least for another 8 months. Hopefully there are some takers of the Monoprice ones instead.
I wanted to get one as well but 31 Oct... we could all be dead by then or something else, equally unpleasant
Oh I did not realize the monoprice was using the same technology. They are promising 4/15 date which is much more hopeful than Massdrop.I wonder how these upcoming THX kits will do. Self-proclaimed 'successor' to Objective amp line, monoprice has DAC stage too but that price..
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=24459
The Monolith Desktop Headphone DAC Amplifier features cutting edge THX AAA™ technology to bring out the best in your headphones, playback device, and music library. It utilizes the THX AAA-788 amplifier design for an impressive 2x1500mW of high-powered amplification with the world’s lowest distortion and noise. It also features the new flagship AKM AK4493 32-bit stereo Premium DAC with VELVET SOUND™ technology, Dirac Sensaround II decoding for an expanded larger than life soundstage, and a host of balanced, unbalanced, and digital inputs and outputs to ensure users have plenty of ways to connect their playback devices for a high-quality listening experience.
It's honestly ridiculous the self-invented/now patented terms they are throwing at your face here hence why I wonder if it will perform!Certainly has plenty of buzzwords...