Nitewullf
There are two dacs which are awesome in that price range.
One is the awesome T+A Dac 8DSD which for $4,200.00 is just plain outstanding, I know it is not a ladder dac but nonethess wow if you feed it via a computer with upsampled pcm to DSD 256 or 512 it produces a holographic, totally musica sound.
This is the dac that we use most of the time when demoing our Legacy Signatures that you so love.
The other is the Aqua Hifi Lasca which we have a Demo that would make the piece affordable and that is a Ladder Dac, and it is also upgradable via replaceable boards.
The Aqua gear is just exceptionally musical and is very involving, with a liquid midrange as the La Scala uses tubes, the fact that Aqua offers up grades and is an evolving platform to me would make that dac very interesting compared to the Metrum which does make nice sounding musical products. http://www.aquahifi.com/la_scala.html
http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/06/next-level-aqua-hifi-formula-la-scala-mkii-w-telefunken/
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/aqua/1.html
Dave owner
Audio Doctor
There are two dacs which are awesome in that price range.
One is the awesome T+A Dac 8DSD which for $4,200.00 is just plain outstanding, I know it is not a ladder dac but nonethess wow if you feed it via a computer with upsampled pcm to DSD 256 or 512 it produces a holographic, totally musica sound.
This is the dac that we use most of the time when demoing our Legacy Signatures that you so love.
The other is the Aqua Hifi Lasca which we have a Demo that would make the piece affordable and that is a Ladder Dac, and it is also upgradable via replaceable boards.
The Aqua gear is just exceptionally musical and is very involving, with a liquid midrange as the La Scala uses tubes, the fact that Aqua offers up grades and is an evolving platform to me would make that dac very interesting compared to the Metrum which does make nice sounding musical products. http://www.aquahifi.com/la_scala.html
http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/06/next-level-aqua-hifi-formula-la-scala-mkii-w-telefunken/
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/aqua/1.html
Dave owner
Audio Doctor