dac recommendations for turntable listener?

we have had the lab 12in house it is very warm and lacks resolution

just looked at the Mearson it doesn’t have USB so it cant handle high resolution files so I would also pass on that one,

the lampis are excellent sounding.

We would recommend you look at the Aqua hifi Lascala:

It is very musical, tube based: and r2r so very analog like.

plays all high resolution files.

the dac is built on a modular, upgradable, platform so as technology improves the dac can improve as well

Dave and Troy

audio Intellect NJ

Aqua Hifi dealers

@audphile1 that's very interesting, the only other external dac ive ever had is the denafrips aeries ii, I thought it was nice sounding and relaxed, but still lacked midrange body compared to my entry level turntable at the time with a 2m blue cartridge. the ps dsd is very shouty in comparison to the denfrips and my turntables, it doesn't have that effortless sound to my ears. the high frequencies are very sharp and I cant listen for more than an hour at a time. I feel like I always have to turn it up in order to get that lower midrange presence, and then the highs are too loud by that time. there is also a lot of sibilance with female vocals, going from sunlight to the one before it reduced this sibilance a tiny amount, and also going from usb input to optical also helped a tiny bit too, but its still there. my turntable throws a huge soundstage not only is it 3d but the images within that soundstage are 3d, this is where the dsd sounds flat in comparison (even though its soundstage is deeper than my turntable, the images themselves are very 2d). the turntable is also very effortless like music just flows out of the speakers (its really a hard thing for my to describe so please bare with me) and all the details are there they're just very smooth. the dsd is lacking that body and weight. 

im streaming from Qobuz mostly, and regular cds, as well as some local dsd files. rcd's are bluejeans or silver serpant, and power cord is ps audio ac5. I will look into the bryston.

@audiotroy thank you for that suggestion I will look into it! 

also the merason does have usb to my knowledge and can play up to 192 👍🏼

What are you using as a streamer? Is it just the network card in the dac? If that’s the case it’s not the best. 
I had a pretty good analog setup - MoFi Ultradeck with Hana ML into Sutherland 20/20 with LPS and it was nice but it didn’t match up to my Bricasti M3 DAC that I had at the time. The PS Audio DSD DAC actually sounds warmer than the M3 did. I’m using Aurender N200 streamer.