Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD

I'm ready to start drinking. I have read over every review of the Consequence Ultimate and talked with many people who know the Consequence Ultimate well and nowhere, in review or discussion, does anyone report or hear what I am complaining of. Nor did I hear it at the store. Other then the bit of a shout (and it's not harsh or truly fatiguing-it's just bothering me considering how much $$$$$ I have into them), I love the speaker. They vanish even though they are a large cabinet and the throw a wonderfully wide and deep soundstage. They are tonally accurate and multi layered with wonderfully accurate leading and trailing edges.

I'm not giving up. But I will pull them for a bit to give the Isis a good listen.

I had a local dealer drop off an Allnic D5000 DHT DAC and Antipodes DX server. Cool!!! I'll report mid next week on this as well.

Hi Matt, if in about one more month of grinding out signals the Consequences do not tame the shoutiness, you might need to get a professional to do a methodic setup... And if the shoutiness persists after that, you might need to look for tamer creatures... Or add a pair of Rel active subs to the good old Muziks to let your system reach down one more half clean octave.

G.

Remember Guido - the reason I looked past Die Muzik is the rear port issue which activates mucho nodes in the room. Adding more base would have been a disaster....

I agree that if the shout doesn't settle with burn in then a Master Set may be in order. Unless the Isis blow me away; they will be moved down today and set up by tomorrow at the latest.

As I said, I have heard the Ultimates myself in other locations and I just loved them. I think the shout is somehow due to my room, I just can't figure out how to correct it. It's a labour of love....

I do have a LOT of DAC's coming my way. The Allnic D5000 and an Antipodes DX arrived yesterday. So I have a LOT of work to do.

Hey Matt,

I think the shortcoming is truly, the Mac Mini setup. I bet the Podes fixes your problem.

Paul - I don't disagree that the mini is a weak link, but it has never caused a shout before. and I have had a LOT of speakers grace my room.

Why now with the Consequence Ultimates?

-Is it that it has a lower sensitivity (84db) and demands more power to drive it and thus highlights my systems inadequacies?

-Are the CU's just not burned in yet as Guido suggests?

-Are the CU so accurate that they are revealing something upstream that was previously not discernible?

-Do the CU have such low distortion that I'm just playing them way louder then anything else in my room thus far and I'm overdriving my room?

-Are the quasi-horn loaded/ring radiated drivers just not plying nicely in my smallish room? Am I sitting to close to them?

I know not the answers to these questions. I feel that the CU is teetering on the edge of nirvana and I just need to know what to adjust to get it there....

But your suggestion is spot on. I was initially going to compare the ODSE and D5000 using my familiar Mac Mini source but I'll try the DX first in a brief head to head to see if the shout is still there. Could it be that easy??? I hope so!!!