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Yamamoto YDA 01 DAC

Is there any Agoner have this Yamamoto dac and could share his comments on how its sound?
Thanks
ben
lewinskih01
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Briang,

I think the upsampling would be best done at the computer, then sent to the Metrum. An option for upsampling out of a CD player could be an Esoteric G25. Over at computeraudiophile a member has been trying with upsampling at the computer and he claims it is an awesome DAC.

Maybe you are asking how would the sound be with a 16/44.1 feed from a CD player. I am wondering about that too.

I myself, am very much looking forward to Charles1dad experience with it.
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charles1dad
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I got an email from Cees regarding my Metrum Octave. He shipped it out last week,I tracked it and it`s just sitting in customs waiting to be cleared. Hope to have it relatively soon.
staehli
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Got my Metrum Octave yesterday and compared it cold out of the box with my benchmark DAC1. The Octave is a glass of red wine, whereas the benchmark's more like a gin tonic. Soundstage opens up considerably vertically and horizontically but not so much in depth, bass is deeper (!) but less defined, sometimes even a bit one-note, midrange sounds lovely natural and voluminous, treble is still a bit nondescript like pink noise but that's very much exagerated from my side. Detail seems even better than from the benchmark which might be a function of the Metrums ability to reproduce timbres. The differences are certainly more pronounced than I anticipated.

Most importantly, it's already very enjoyable

Hope that helps
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charles1dad
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Staehli,
Thanks for the very early impressions. Cees said initial sound is bright,and it needs about 3 weeks to settle in.I`m still waiting for my delivery. How long was your waiting period?

I`m really looking forward to the natural tone and timbre that 6moons touted. It seems already you`ve noted high level detail/resolution, that`s encouraging.
staehli
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Charles,
I ordered mine on the 8th of August.

The amount of resolution was unexpected but "more developped timbres" is probably the better description and this is the kind of "resolution", that was missing from the benchmark. Please keep in mind that we're comming from different directions: you from the Yamamoto, me from the benchmark, so your findings might be different.

I expect this to develop into a long thread so its a pitty, it runs under the Yamamoto lable.
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