Nango
Major Contributor
It reminds of Braun Hifi. Never seen again.
I do not understand the audiophile fascination with linear power supplies.
The design of the Bricasti is a decade old.OK, school me here.
Why is Bricasti using a decade-old Analog Devices chip in this DAC?
A decade ago, it was their top of the line if memory serves.
These days, stiff competition from the likes of ESS, AKM, Crystal, etc.
Did they buy a snarfload of them initially and now they're stuck with them?
The design of the Bricasti is a decade old.
They’re BAAAAACK!!!!!It reminds of Braun Hifi. Never seen again.
Typo, which when changed to "only you can decide if you want to pay nearly 2,000% more for that", makes the point even more!Alas, we can buy this level of performance for less than 5% of the cost of Bricasti! You won't get the distinctive and nice look of Bricasti. Only you can decide if you want to pay 95% more for that.
Is that a serious question?Here we go, again … Expensive stuff measuring worse than dongle. And usual set of comments.
Yep, it measures worse than Topping, so what? Still audibly transparent, Still working after 12 years.
What’s not to like?
Agreed. Ten years ago this was still a rip off, it doesn't even look good (no matter it's age).Is that a serious question?
The price. The price is not to like. It is fair for build quality and aesthetics come at a premium. The premium should never be 100x over a similar-performing device without premium build quality and aesthetics.
Would you consider this bad performance ?
https://www.stereophile.com/content/bryston-bda-1-da-converter-measurements
I got one used 10 years ago for almost half of the original price.
When I got it, it blew away every other disc player or DAC I ever had (many !).
Still in use today and can sound better than the analog outputs of the Eversolo DMP-A6 that is attached via Coax spdif (depending on the source material quality).
As much as I would like to get rid of it, it just keeps going.
Also better about 95% of the time Vs a Gustard A26 via USB (which I took out of the system recently and may sell soon).
Comparisons are always at matched levels (within .1dB at speaker terminals) and both sighted and blind with similar results.
It is however very sensitive to the source component via Coax (no USB 2.0 input) so jitter attenuation is not good.
I had the best results with the Pi2designs Mercury streamer V2 before it bricked and almost as good with a Oppo UDP-205 (all via coax spdif).
But I do agree that $10k is way too much for the Briscasti even if this was brand new design with a more modern DAC !!!