Higher End DACs

Taiko Audio SGM Extreme 6Moons review:

"The Mount Everest of PC-Based Streamers"  Blue Moon Award!

https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/taiko/

Thanks david_ten

Very interesting article...

I downloaded the music samples that the reviewer listen to also....I listen from my PC also....

It makes me envious of those who will be able to purchase this 24,000 Euro piece of engineering...

But not too much envious tough, if I compare my listening with his description of the music samples used...

Like I said in another thread almost all S.Q. comes from the implementation and controls of the 4 embeddings of an audio system at whatever price ( 60 % at least )more than from the electronical component "per se".... A consolation for the "poor" audiophile.... :)


My best to you...

I have a lowly celeron NUC as my server.  Its inside a 90dB RF-STOP isolation chamber with only optical I/O. This means zero RF noise escapes to impinge on my DAC and sounds, IMO, like endgame quality.  If we are all pragmatic, we know that the SGM Extreme bitstream is the same as my NUC's.  Exactly the same. The SGM is just a very very low RF noise source. All that metal and engineering buries the noise to be highly uncorrelated or at a level below where it matters to the DAC.  Yes, you can go in the $GM direction or be objective and focus on RF reduction with a few simple principles to get essentially the same result.

LOL!!! of course! for every single piece of high end audio gear, there is a much, much, did I say much, much cheaper version that sounds just as good for a fraction of the cost. LOL!!

I have a lowly celeron NUC as my server. Its inside a 90dB RF-STOP isolation chamber with only optical I/O. This means zero RF noise escapes to impinge on my DAC and sounds, IMO, like endgame quality

If you put some stones on your breaker panel you will discover that all the electrical grid of the house is only one integral piece, and that isolating one link from R.F. does not lower so much all the noise floor... This fact is underestimated completely.... And many companies sold some "magical" electronic component to solve this with some ready made solution out of the box...But controlling this noise floor is not the same thing than working only on one link as well electrically isolated as it is....