Accuphase dac 60

Well, besides the gain that I know about now and reading on another  thread here about it, I believe I found the problem with the testing.

My son and a friend where moving some furniture for me and finally told me they bumped my rack. 

found one xlr cable end was messed up at the ps audio output & my coaxial cable from my CD player was screwed up. They got pinched between my stand and the wall and where working intermittently, I believe when the sub was hitting low notes. I was able to finally get down there and shake the cables around and they were definitely causing issues.
 

I replaced all cables with spares I had and it is sounding better now, back to normal. Stupid coincidence the same time I had the dac 60. I can’t move or check anything because I had rotator cuff surgery three weeks ago. Plus he moved some equipment around for me. So, something happened in that time period.

he’s 17 and I guess was nervous to mention it. So, the dac 60 card will be returning to me by next week. What a mess. It was driving me nuts why everything sounded so off sometimes.

Just thought everyone deserved an update.
 

Took me a full day trying to replace cables that should have taken 20 minutes max. All because I was using my non dominant hand and the pain of my shoulder. Yes, I had extra brand new exact same cables.

Thanks very much for the update!

Accuphase used AKM chips in the DAC 50, then the chip factory burned down and they ran out of chips.  They were forced to switch to other chips and chose ESS chips and by force of chance introduced the new DAC 60 card. In my opinion, AKM is sonically superior to ESS.

@susurin 

from like the only YouTube video where a guy demoed both, you could tell the dac 50 was on the warmer side and the dac 60 was brighter.

not much out there on these dac’s.