Just comes to show you that brand names don't matter much. Expensive stuff can still be disappointing. It is getting harder and harder but we still need to figure out how to try stuff out without buying it and being stuck with it.
New Luxman DA-06 doesnt sound so great. Will it get better?
Hi, I recently received a Luxman DA-06 dac (new, gray market Japan import) and it the sound doesnt seem to have any life. It sounds a bit dull, uninvolving, and just low fidelity. The best way can explain it is that it sounds like when a phono cartridge has a bad impedance mismatch with a preamp or if the signal gain is too high and it is clipping . The unit only has less than 15 hours on it. I wanted to know if this is normal and it would clear itself up or I have received a bad unit. I have tried it in 2 different systems and it sounds the same. I have tried both outputs, balanced and unbalanced. I have read this dac requires 100s of hours break in time and I hope the sound improves. Anyone has any experience with this and could share their thoughts? I would greatly appreciate it.
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@milpai Maybe I did, but I don’t remember saying Luxman being as good as $20K DACs, because I have never evaluated a +$20K DAC in my system. In isolation, the D10x is a fine DAC; but when you start comparing it to cheaper high end Chinese/South Korean DACs, it quickly shows its weaknesses. All my evaluation was done using Gryphon Pandora preamp and Gryphon Essence amp going into Fyne Audio F704 speakers.
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@arize84 , A Luxman DAC came up for sale here and I was researching on it. Going through various Luxman threads I came across Luxman D03x Vs D10x Of course I did notice that you did not like the USB implementation of the Luxman:
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