Metrum Pavane NOS DAC

IMO, leaves nothing on the table.
Bass is an area where the Pavane is noticeably better than the Hex. Through my big DNA-2 Signature amp, and Aerial 9 speakers, bass is full, deep and detailed.

On another topic, any of you compare the Totaldac USB cable directly with the CAD USB cable?

People have compared TOTALdac usb to everything everyone seems to pick the Totaldac. I wonder how their aes/ebu is? I have aerial 20t's i am hoping if i get the Pavane the bass will be really good as well. There is one guy that has the Pavane and a Totaldac d-1Dual and claims he likes the Pavane better to listen too a little richer in sound.

Coli hi, the Metrum Pavane has old school R2R Ladder Multibit dacs, to my ear I believe R2R Multibit to have it all over the current new Delta Sigma, Bitstream, ESS type d/a convertors when playing Redbook CD's. This is why they are very hard to get and expensive, about 10 x the price.

Cheers George

PS: the Totaldac is also R2R Ladder Multibit.

Cheers George

The Schiit Yggdrasil is also R2R using 4 $75 exotic 20 bit super precision Analog Devices DACs to give "pure 21 bits of info". My friend has one he lightly modded and he says its outrageous. You can see the mods on my website: http://www.tweakaudio.com/EVS-2/Schiit_mod.html
He is in Pocoima, CA and would love to A/B with the Pavane or other fine DAC.