Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD

Hi guys

My name is Michael Broughton. I was hired by Merging technologies to put together room 1025 at RMAF 2015. This year in particular the success of the sound in our room goes equally to all the manufacturers who provided equipment. I wish to give them their just dues.

Merging technologies brought their new eight channel NADAC. Yesterday we streamed hi rez files over a network cable from a computer to the NADAC directly to a pair of mono blocks.

I will leave it to those of you who heard the room to give your opinions of the sound. But I will say everybody participating in this room is very happy with what we have accomplished.

Ayre acoustics graciously loaned us a twenty series preamp a pair of twenty series mono blocks and their seven series CD player.

German Physiks provided the Carbon MK IV speakers.

Purist Audio provided all the cabling.

And last but not least Star Sound Technologies provided the component platform, amp platforms, and speaker platforms.

ELAC introduced a floor standing speaker for well under a grand that sets a new level for everyone to keep up with. The tonal color and layering were dead on and they way outperform their price level.

These are Andrew Jones ELAC debut. He wants to put ELAC on the map before creating SOTA to compete with TAD. I'll probably order a set for HT.

Hi all.

First off, Bill Parish gave me a personal showing with the Kii (pronounced Kee like Wii) and a day of show play and settling really made a difference (as I suspected). Bill played a few tracks of jazz before kicking into a nic organ piece that showed these tiny things can go low. They deal with front wall issues but side wall and everything in front of the speakers still needs to be addressed. The room was a bit small for them honestly. I see them as an amazing solution for a living or family room. I'm going to hear them in Bills place to see how they sound in different environment.

The new Jeff Rowland Daemon is amazing and really makes the YG Sonya sing (literally). It's limitless power using a new class D amp developing by an offshoot of the Ice class D module, unlike the 825 and 925 which use an Ncore module.

I'll try to report some more of my impressions later tonight. I was invited to a tour of Jeff's factory in Colorado Springs and an audition of his voicing system(thanks Guido!!). Of course I said yes .

It's crazy meeting all these guys. Alex from MSB, Jeff from Rowland, Yoav Geva from YG. It's very cool and they are all good guys.

Glad you had a good day at RMAF Matt, and thanks for the observations about the Kii.

All, concerning the Daemon uber-integrated... I do not have complete information from the factory yet. But the core of the output stage might contain, amongst other things, a very high end Pascal module... No, this is not at all the one used in Rowland Continuum S2.

Regards, Guido