DAC’s

@jerrybj

Interesting that you have to get personal and use language close to profanity.

I guess you cannot argue in an adult way. Maybe I touched a nerve and deep down you agree but cannot accept that your hearing is not as perfect as you would like it to be.

The fact that most people may not agree with me does not refrain me from writing what I believe. Maybe you like going with the flow and are afraid to write unpopular opinions but I am not.

Cheers.

@cakyol Qutest is an excellent DAC. I had it and I can vouch for it. And you can believe what you believe but that doesn’t make it a fact. Chord has Hugo TT2, DAVE and the M-Scaler for a reason.
I have no experience with Meitner so I can’t speak to how it sounds and whether or not it’s better than the Qutest, but I can tell you with all certainty that my Bricasti M3 is considerably superior in every respect. You need a trained ear, the room and the system capable of resolving these improvements and you will hear it. The Qutest isn’t an end game DAC by any stretch of imagination.

@audphile1

Good to know you like the Bricasti. However, it seems way out of my budge at about between $5k - 7k from what I have seen online.

Is the sound quality differential really worth the extra $3-5k ?

That is where I am having difficulty in justifying it. Plus.. I agree my older ears are probably not worth anything more than the $2k I was prepared to spend for the Qutest.

Is the sound quality differential really worth the extra $3-5k ?

@cakyol I would assume that:

• Asking people with 5-7 $k DACs should get an answer of  “yes”.
• Asking people with 100-2k DACs should get the answer of “no”, or “maybe”.

@jjss49 Sir, I can get one for 7k NIB from a dealer. That is part of why I posted this to begin with, but thank you.