Bricasti M1SE Stereo DAC Review

[GeekyBastard]

For $10,000 I expect it to cook me dinner and tuck me in bed every day.

 

[Purité Audio]

I am trying to recollect of the high-end/expensive dacs that Amir has measured is it only the Tambaqui which has returned decent measurements? ( measurements commensurate with its price).
Keith

 

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I am trying to recollect of the high-end/expensive dacs that Amir has measured is it only the Tambaqui which has returned decent measurements? ( measurements commensurate with its price).
Keith

seems like so but I do have faith the dCS ones should be fine, though in my own bar I would say this one pass also, one can hear transparency only so much, the rest are additional "value" on other stuffs.

 

[JeremyFife]

Expensive gear is tricky to vote on, the reasons for buying are far removed from 'just' good engineering.
This meets it's specifications, so there are no surprises and no exaggerated claims - rare enough!
Dated design (because it's 10 years old) and I'm not the target audience. It'll work well and any buyer should be pretty happy.
I don't want one, not that Bricasti would care!

 

[welwynnick]

Those measurements make me wonder what it actually sounds like?

The design, the spec, the measurements, the sound - they're what they wanted them to be.

There's a part of me that says Bricasti knows more than I do.

 

[Sokel]

Those measurements make me wonder what it actually sounds like?

The design, the spec, the measurements, the sound - they're what they wanted them to be.

There's a part of me that says Bricasti knows more than I do.

Judging by the filters implementation they absolute know what they're doing,Amir said they are the best measured so far.
The brown (min. phase 0 I think,hard to tell them apart) is a true masterpiece.

But I don't expect it to have a sound,Multitone shows it's clean in it's broadband measurement.
You probably set and forget for decades as the components in there are top tier.

 

[renaudrenaud]

I think it is a bit unfair to "judge" or evaluate a 12 years old DAC in comparison with what we have today. Yes it was expansive but at least it was, by this time, certainly in the top of the game, if we have a look on measurements produced by @amirm on the old boys.

Please don't quote me, I just explain what I think but I am certainly wrong and it is useless to start a sterile debate.

 

[oscar_dziki]

Voted “fine.” I would have liked to have voted “not terrible” due to its high price and poor value proposition, but as I usually do, I am rating on measured performance only.

Fine measuring piece of a scam.

 

[sairp]

I think 9000 for the chassis -- 1000 for the components justify the total price. ;-)

 

[HuubFranssen]

As proud owner of the beautiful sounding Chord Dave I’m always interested in other dacs that measure horrible!

 

[TonyJZX]

i feel like if you want to go back to 2012 this would not have been an acceptable product for $10k...

2012 was not the dark ages

 

[DSJR]

I come from a perhaps brainwashed era of keeping the circuit path simple. This thing is complexity and excess almost for the sake of it - the kind of complexity you may have had in the late 80's to early nineties perhaps?

Sure the performance is good bearing the above in mind, but the fact appears to be you just don't NEED this kind of circuit overload nowadays and it would serve Mytech's designers well to look at simpler solutions these days, but maybe they've steered themselves too far up that particular blind expensive alley to come back?

I want to vote poor, but it's not a poor product, simply a ludicrously overpriced and now old fashioned one for the job it needs to do..

 

[amirm]

I think it is a bit unfair to "judge" or evaluate a 12 years old DAC in comparison with what we have today. Yes it was expansive but at least it was, by this time, certainly in the top of the game, if we have a look on measurements produced by @amirm on the old boys.

This product is on sale right now. You can get it with or without the SE revision. So it doesn't matter that the original came out a while ago. it is a current product.

 

[spigot]

The big 'hi-fi' feet is always a good psychological ploy.

 

[TheWalkman]

For the same money, I can, instead, buy 1000 of these Apple DACS or better yet, I can buy a single dongle, hang it on my iPhone and using the saved funds, spend three weeks on the beach in Fiji listening to my music library.

Decisions, decisions…

 

[milosz]

$10,000? How many miles per gallon does it get? What are the zero-to-sixty and quarter mile times? Wait, WHAT!?!?! It's NOT a used car???

 

[DHT 845]

As proud owner of the beautiful sounding Chord Dave I’m always interested in other dacs that measure horrible!

Dave does not measure horrible, but I bet all tube DAC's like Audio Note, Lampizator, Audio Research, old Sonic Frontiers do measure poor. And yet many audiophiles prefer their sound to clinical, studio like "perfection".

 

[Purité Audio]

Those measurements make me wonder what it actually sounds like?

The design, the spec, the measurements, the sound - they're what they wanted them to be.

There's a part of me that says Bricasti knows more than I do.

It will sound like every other dac in the top 7/8th of Amir’s list, just more expensive.
Keith

 

[Addicted to music]

I think ill stick to my Topping D50. this out of my class!

 

[milosz]

Dave does not measure horrible, but I bet all tube DAC's like Audio Note, Lampizator, Audio Research, old Sonic Frontiers do measure poor. And yet many audiophiles prefer their sound to clinical, studio like "perfection".

I will bet dollars to donuts that if any of these DAC owners did blind listening tests to their DACs against other DACs they would be completely unable to tell the difference.