Emm Labs DV2 versus Tambaqui

Metaldektor hit the nail on the head. It’s all about synergy! 

@melm  It was the author of another forum   Apparently, I thought it was a site review but is the author biased?

@fleschler

I don’t think he is biased. There would be no reason. As far as I know, from this and another forum, @dbb is an amateur music lover like me and you. He is not a dealer. He bought the Musetec and the Holo May with his own money, and after the review he was satisfied to keep the Musetec and sold the May. I do identify with him as his passion is for classical music and his listening references are live unamplified concerts. There isn’t a better reference IMO. So that was the basis of the review.

I don’t think it is fair to say that the conclusion was, "The May didn’t hold up to the Musetec 005." As I read what he wrote, he found them to be very similar notwithstanding their very different architectures. He pointed out their very small differences. Being that close in SQ performance, he decided to keep the one costing less money.

@fleschler

I’m not sure how this thread devolved into a discussion of DACs unrelated to the OP’s question -- that’s how these discussions always seem to go..."expensive" DACs (i.e., more expensive than whatever the poster likes) are the new "snake oil" I suppose.

According to Herb’s column in Stereophile, some of the tech for the Tambaqui was discovered in 2004 and production began in 2013. My long-term reference/snake oil is totaldac, and the basic ideas there have been in use since at least 2010, refined here and there over time. I guess that can be good or bad, depending on your perspective. Perhaps you’re assuming that new digital must be better than old digital. My view is "Don’t Mess Up a Good Thing".