Msb dacs why not alot of postings

Hi Everyone,
Newbie on this subject...can anyone compare or comment on the Kii3 dacs as opposed to MSB?  Is it even possible?

I feed an analog signal to my Kii3's so it has to be ADC'd back to digital in the Kii, and the Kii team are confident enough re this conversion that they say if a difference is detectable then there is a weakness in the analog chain feeding the Kii!  

I cant imagine there would be any major advantage to adding a high end DAC in the system but would be interested to hear others thoughts. 

rgds

I cant imagine there would be any major advantage to adding a high end DAC in the system but would be interested to hear others thoughts.

Kii is correct there would be no reason to add any DAC the preferred method of input is digital unless you’re connecting phono. If sending an analog signal from a DAC the ADC in the Kii is convertig the analog signal back to digital running it through it’s DSP and using it’s DAC to convert back. No matter what DAC you use in front of the Kii it would sound the same since it’s the Kii DAC that does the final conversion.

I cant imagine there would be any major advantage to adding a high end DAC in the Kii system but would be interested to hear others thoughts.

No matter what DAC you use in front of the Kii it would sound the same since it’s the Kii DAC that does the final conversion.

And the dac’s are not near the hiend quality of this threads MSB subject or it’s nearest competitors. It would really be something to hear if there were a bunch of MSB R2R dac’s in the KII innards.

Cheers George

Yes, today they are crazy expensive. Yet looking back 20 years that was not always so. I have one of Mark’s earlier units, the MSB Gold Full Nelson, to which i added my own power supply (plural actually) and some further fitter control (a loop on the already excellent timing source).
I believe the base price was under $500 and with all the upgrades a few hundred more. The parts for my external PS (which made a big difference BTW) cost me maybe $125.00 - plus of course lots of pencil and soldering iron time.
So Mark knows how to deliver value as well. I guess he just moved on as the market progressed. I have not heard the latest stuff under controlled circumstances, but if the past is any indication, i bet its great.
G

I got a floor model MSB S200 power amp a number of years ago for a decent price; it sounded so great with either solid-state or tube source that I got some other used MSB gear on Audiogon, like an 'Analog DAC', which I also use as a pre-amp, and the UMT Plus transport. I'd never be able to afford this stuff new, but you CAN find them at reasonable prices as either store demos or used, and I've had no problems with any of this gear.