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Chadeffect although the new Weiss Medea Plus is an amazing product, heard the first unit that came to my country, I think the Vekian and especially the Orpheus are quite a bit better. They are not 3 times better though as their price suggests. By the way I owned the original Weiss Medea.

Happy Listening Everyone.

Mike

Mike,

Thanks for that...good to know.

Hi Mrtennis,

I agree. Personally I only ever used the medea in FireWire mode with Amarra direct into various amps. The zanden adds to digital what my Yamamoto adds to the Medeas über clean untouched approach IMHO.

Personally I want my audio untouched. But obviously this means the synergy between the system needs to be finely tuned.

Argyro,

I felt the Vekian had nowhere near the openness in the treble or anywhere near the transparency & lack of grain of the Medea.

Again I agree with you that each of the above mentioned products balance is completely differently if used with preamps or without, or with transports or computers etc.

As always set up is everything. I found the Medea plus to be utterly true to the source (with FireWire). That's why I find it the best DAC I know. If you want editorialized signal then you need to look elsewhere.

Has anyone auditioned the TotalDac and if so is it considered among one of the best?

Has anyone auditioned the TotalDac and if so is it considered among one of the best?

I have it. It's the best I've had by far. (eg. Mpd-5, BMC DAC1, Empirical Audio (top upgrades).