First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship
I have received the 006 almost a week ago and have been breaking it in. The price at Shenzhenaudio is $3,900.00 USD, $600 more than the 005. The ad copy states:
"DA006 is a new generation of flagship DAC developed by Musetec over three years and launched in 2024. During this period, it has undergone more than ten revisions and adjustments.
Compared to the previous DA005, the listening experience of DA006 has been improved in all aspects. DA006 has clearer and richer details, a stronger sense of texture, a more stable sound base, better detail control, a wider soundstage, fuller and more powerful, smoother and more natural. . ."
Some brief listening during break in has been very very positive. I will report back when it has run at least 300 hours.
I have not heard they said about upgrading Gaia. In fact they have also not advertised any upgrades to Pontus to the 15th Gen until it was released. There is always room for improvements in any components - even if you are not changing design, just upgrading internal parts could provide a very noticeable change. |
My Gaia is 12th or latest version, seems I recall reading something about minor improvements. Often times manufacturers improve things in ongoing basis, may not mention this and/or designate as new version or model.
All equipment subject to ongoing improvements, who knows when your piece becomes yesterday's model. Sonore just came out with Deluxe versions of my OpticalRendu and OpticalModule, so now I'm behind the curve again, this stuff is never ending! |
@sns i am glad that I was able to get out of the Copper ethernet and savings for the card as well as an expensive Ethernet cable. I still have the jcat xe (non-Evo) version lying around. I was thinking of upgrading the jcat usb xe to the Evo version but for the price, I might experiment with newer motherboards that might do similar trick. Will see one way or the other. Still not decided if I want to experiment with a good ddc like Gaia though I tried several cheaper ones earlier and did not like the result. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a way to audition it - a US tour of the Gaia will be much appreciated from Denafrips and their US distributor :-) |
