@melm, sorry for the wait we are going to publish the results along with some pictures of the event on our webpage soon. Stay tuned. :)
DAC Event in Phoenix AZ August 24th
Hi Folks,
For those curious about DACs, the Arizona AV Club is partnering with a number of manufactures and dealers to produce a Dac shootout on Saturday August 24th 11am to 3pm. The event will be held at Acoustic Designs 16074 N. 78th Street, Suite B104, Scottsdale, AZ 85260.
The following dacs will be present:
If you have any interest in hearing well regarded dacs on a top tier system don't miss this event! There is a $10 entry fee. RSVPs are appreciated due to limited seating; multiple sessions will be available. There will also be a speaker from Chord present to talk about their technology.
More information here: www.AZAVCLUB.COM or PM me.
For those curious about DACs, the Arizona AV Club is partnering with a number of manufactures and dealers to produce a Dac shootout on Saturday August 24th 11am to 3pm. The event will be held at Acoustic Designs 16074 N. 78th Street, Suite B104, Scottsdale, AZ 85260.
The following dacs will be present:
- Schiit Yggdrasil
- Chord Hugo TT + M Scaler
- Benchmark DAC3
- iFi Audio Pro iDSD
- PS Audio DirectStream
- Holo Audio Spring DAC2
- Jolida Glass FX DAC
- NuPrime Evolution DAC
- L.K.S. DAC MH-DA004
- Line Magnetic
If you have any interest in hearing well regarded dacs on a top tier system don't miss this event! There is a $10 entry fee. RSVPs are appreciated due to limited seating; multiple sessions will be available. There will also be a speaker from Chord present to talk about their technology.
More information here: www.AZAVCLUB.COM or PM me.
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Interesting about the Dacs, as I was about ready to pull the trigger on a Chord Qutest Dac tonight but then I held off after reading some post on here. My current system consists of Belles MB-200 Monobloc with their VT-01 Tube Pre/Amp, I am a sucker for a good tube pre/amp, just not sure if the Chord would fit better in this system or going with the Jolida Black Ice Dac... I mean it doesn't surprise me that most liked it more, as Tubes tend to color the music in ways a lot of people prefer... |
Write up on our webpage is live in the center column: www.AZAVCLUB.COM TLDR; Session 1) First Place = Chord Qutest Second Place (tie) = Holo Audio Spring DAC2 and NuPrime Evolution DAC Session 2) First Place = Schiit Yggdrasil Second Place = iFi Audio Pro iDSD Third Place = Benchmark DAC3
Session 3) First Place = Black Ice Audio Glass FX DSD Second Place = LKS MH-DA004 Third Place = PS Audio Direcstream DAC
Session 4) Finals: First Place = Black Ice Audio Glass FX DSD Second Place = Chord Qutest Third Place = Schiit Yggdrasil The Format: All dacs were fed the same source simultaneously via optical input from an optical splitter fed from the cd player. A professional recording engineer and myself spent the day before setting up and level matching all the dacs. For each listening session we played five test tracks from all different genres of music using high quality recordings. We cycled through the dacs using the various preamp inputs for a seamless transition during each test track with each dac playing for 10-30 seconds at a time with several transitions within each track.
Listeners knew which dacs were present in each bracket but not which dac was playing at a given time other than if it was dac A, B, or C. Votes were tallied at the end of each session and only afterward were the dacs unveiled as belonging to one of the given inputs (A, B,or C). Not even I, who set up the dacs knew which one was which until the unveiling. Participants then discussed why they liked a given dac and we discussed the dacs technology and feature set. The event took place in a room custom built to showcase home theater design and thus was very well treated. The system consisted of:
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