Quite a few Bricasti M21 DACs for sale cheap

@tucutrer

I like my Bricasti M21 DAC very much because it sounds great. The DAC has a 24-bit delta sigma DAC, a 20-bit ladder DAC and true 1 bit DSD for DSD content. It includes an Ethernet connection so the M21 is recognized as a DNLA device and becomes a powerful media renderer.

I switched my music streaming to using Audirvana Studio software on my MAC Laptop Computer (14-inch MacBook Pro M2 12 Core/19CPU). I use Audirvana Studio remote on my iPad to find the albums, playlists, etc. My Bricasti 21 DAC connects to the Internet using an Ethernet cable. This setup has resulted in my music being clearer and more open (replaced my Aurender sever). The Audirvana Studio interface is excellent and is easy to use (yes, there is a slight learning curve).

The removal of the music streamer and having the Bricasti DAC connect to the Internet and then to my MAC computer has removed a layer from the Music and made it more musical and clearer. I was not expecting this much improvement. The use of Audirvana Studio App has substantially improved my sound quality very much.

As an example of great product support, my Bricasti DAC was upgraded for $1,000. Their MDx board replaced the existing board in the DAC. The next Bricasti upgrade was a free firmware chip program that needed to be inserted into the DAC to complete the upgrade. Both upgrades greatly improved the DAC for a very reasonable cost. This is an example of a company supporting its customers.

The reason there's so many for sale is because people are finding out that the Wyred4sound 10th anniversary DAC for $4,500 is much better than the bricasti, I was on their site and they're also out of the silver version only the black version left so people are definitely snapping them up.

Hmmm, could it be the '10th anniversary' DACs are out of stock because they were released in the late 2017 timeframe? :)

I'm happy with mine.  Going to stream Qobuz now using Audirvana.  Agree with @hgeifman 's comments about the M21.

Bricasti OWNERS ONLY:

The Bricasti web site says “The MDx was implemented in production on all products starting January 2020, and is now available for upgrades. In keeping with our upgrade philosophy, all past D/A converter products are eligible for the MDx upgrade including all versions of the M1, M3, M12, and M21”. 

I asked Bricasti its explain how this applies to my Bricasti M21 DAC.  They said "An updated MDx will gain me nothing sonically. The newer revision is solely for the implementation of the new graphics display and IS2 for the M19 Transport. The M21 is identical sound-wise”.

That is what Joe told me as well when I expressed interest to update the MDx1.09 on M3 to the latest. I didn’t pursue it further as I trust Joe knows what he’s talking about.