Boutique caps in oil... reliable?

@charles1dad 

Hi Charles,

I never hears of this DAC before, so I looked it up. I looks amazing, and right away reminded me of Audio Note, although reading the text it appears that it is its own thing, although I was glad to see that there was no oversampling, because I think that is where the magic begins.

What led you to choose it?

@roxy54

I became aware of Abbas via a What’s best audio forum thread. From owner and listener comments I became intrigued. Once I began reading the Abbas website (Russian but used chrome for translation) his philosophy, technical skill and approach reeled me in. We exchanged numerous emails and that sealed the deal.

I’ve happily owned my Yamamoto DAC for 12 years due to its natural sound quality and realistic tonality. I’ve heard many “modern “ high tech DACs (Upsampling/over sampling/filters/algorithms etc.) just not for me. I strongly suspect that the Abbas 3.2SE will go beyond the excellent Yamamoto. We’ll see.

Charles

@charles1dad -

     When @roxy54 mentioned Audio Note, it rang a bell in my empty head and I did a little search.

     Mr Qvortrup also started using Black Gates back in the 80's

     Beside that tidbit: the following is an interesting article:

           https://www.audionote.in/the-black-gate-story

     As I mentioned: BGs take a LOOONG time to reach their prime, so- be patient when you get your new DAC.   

                                    btw: Thanks for the props!     

                It's good to know, I'm helping someone in their quest.

                                          Happy listening!

@charles1dad I will be very curious to hear your thoughts on the Abbas Dac vs your Yamamoto I've heard of Abbas and from what I can tell they, like Sw1x, are emulating the Audio Note philosophy. Having heard both Yamamoto and AN I definitely think there are similarities in sound presentation if not technology, Abbas would seem to be of a similar mindset.