Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC and Streamer Review

[ChrisUK]

Will be welcomed. But beware about going too much into subjective/uncontrolled listening. Joke aside, I'm sure anybody want to see the dCs measured by @amirm...

I'm going to have a go at measuring the dCS myself, but my kit will be limited.

If there is anybody in the UK with an AP I would be happy to sort something out so we can all see the numbers.

 

[Matias]

I'm going to have a go at measuring the dCS myself, but my kit will be limited.

If there is anybody in the UK with an AP I would be happy to sort something out so we can all see the numbers.

Which dCS do you have? Depending on the model there are already measurements online.

 

[ChrisUK]

Will be welcomed. But beware about going too much into subjective/uncontrolled listening. Joke aside, I'm sure anybody want to see the dCs measured by @amirm...

Actually you have a point, there is little point posting any type of listening test or measurements.

A very strange place ASR, much like being on a car forum that posts engine stats but no actual driving experience....

 

[BDWoody]

Actually you have a point, there is little point posting any type of listening test or measurements.

A very strange place ASR, much like being on a car forum that posts engine stats but no actual driving experience....

It would be more like being in a car forum where everyone posts their latest greatest improvement or purchase, talks about how much better and faster it is, but nobody posts track times...

 

[VintageFlanker]

car forum where everyone posts their latest greatest improvement or purchase, talks about how much better and faster it is, but nobody posts track times

Yep.Track times are actually measurements. The place would be useless if anybody would claim "I'm able to end this track in under 1.34min"... Without bringing any proof of it.

Oh, wait: that's actually what happens in most audiophile forums!

 

[LuckyLuke575]

Very nice DAC and SOTA performance. This one deserves to be at the top of the list and sit in a 6 or 7 figure hifi system. But I'm more pleased with the fact that the EUR 130 Topping E30 DAC sitting on my desk gives me almost the same performance

 

[boXem]

Very nice DAC and SOTA performance. This one deserves to be at the top of the list and sit in a 6 or 7 figure hifi system. But I'm more pleased with the fact that the EUR 130 Topping E30 DAC sitting on my desk gives me almost the same performance

Until, like me, you stop self congratulating on how smart you were to buy so much performance for such a low price and discover how the user experience is crappy, between the noises emitted for whatever reason, the remote having the same working angles as the one from a cheap 80's stereo shitbox, the commands with no meaning, and the auto on-off not working with whatever Linux based (rasp, android...). Paying 130 EUR., for this? I did it. Let's say it's part of the 2020 experience.

 

[Willem]

So somewhere in between there is functional perfection that still leaves money to buy new soccer boots for your son or a new carbon field hockey stick for your daughter.

 

[boXem]

Exactly!
BTW I know a manufacturer who strives to offer this to his customers

 

[barrows]

I would actually suggest that the Tambaqui is the best value DAC on the market as it bests many DACs at 5 times its price. One receives truly ground breaking SOTA sound quality from the Tambaqui.
If one is under the impression that there are DACs which sound as good as the Tambaqui for way less money, please let me know what DACs those are AFTER you have actually made the listening comparison.

 

[Purité Audio]

I have compared it to the dacs I have here, Soncoz SGD1 and the RME ADI range, no difference in sound quality.
Keith

 

[Willem]

This is Audio SCIENCE Review. All of thse dacs measure better than the scientific threshold of human hearing acuity.

 

[Feyire]

I would actually suggest that the Tambaqui is the best value DAC on the market as it bests many DACs at 5 times its price. One receives truly ground breaking SOTA sound quality from the Tambaqui.
If one is under the impression that there are DACs which sound as good as the Tambaqui for way less money, please let me know what DACs those are AFTER you have actually made the listening comparison.

Send me your Tambaqui and I'll compare it against my Okto DAC8 Stereo.

 

[VintageFlanker]

I would actually suggest that the Tambaqui is the best value DAC on the market as it bests many DACs at 5 times its price.

... You speak like there would be so "many" DACs costing that much... Plus, I lost the count how many times I've read this exact same sentence for any Audio product.

 

[pozz]

Send me your Tambaqui and I'll compare it against my Okto DAC8 Stereo.

I'm just wondering what there is to compare. The numbers speak for themselves, no?

 

[Matias]

... You speak like there would be so "many" DACs costing that much... Plus, I lost the count how many times I've read this exact same sentence for any Audio product.

For 50k+ usd I only know of dCS Vivaldi, MSB Select and Esoteric Grandioso D1X.

 

[Pritaudio]

How about using improved power supplies to improve the presentation without having any as of now measurable difference. It’s the way our hearing has evolved combined with other dimensions.

 

[barrows]

For 50k+ usd I only know of dCS Vivaldi, MSB Select and Esoteric Grandioso D1X.

Trinity DAC is another, I suspect there are a few more out there as well...

 

[Purité Audio]

Trinity! This is the original ‘Trinity’ preamp,


Dietmar was going to produce a fine measuring range of products at reasonably inexpensive prices.
Until his far eastern distributor told him that the cases were too light and the prices too cheap, in came milled from solid and a tripling of the retail price, with the old boards simply being inserted into the new cases, we parted company at that point.
Keith

 

[Veri]

It’s the way our hearing has evolved combined with other dimensions.

Ah yes, I see it now