Accustic Arts Tube Dac II or Berkley Alpha DAC

We used Mac+Weiss as transport and tested redbook only.
I understand that in another systems results may vary.

I bought a Berkley to hear for myself in my own set-up, I only play redbook and don't care about HiRez;

Set-up;

MBL 101E speakers
Bryston 28 Squared mono blocks
Audio Research Ref3
MBL Ref 1621a transport
Acustic Arts Tube Dac (not stock tubes or fuses or power cable)
Stealth Audio Sextet digital AES cable
Steath cables through out

I don't know what you guys are hearing but in my set-up I most definitely prefer the AA pce. and so did eight others, as Teajay said "much more musical/natural sounding to my ear's", I have to agree with Teajay so it's obvious that we prefer a different sound.

Glory: I just compared my very old Museatex DCC-1 to the Weiss Minerva and I can personally tell you not only did it fair well, it sounded better to these ears. More musical and more of the overall gestalt of the emotional content was present. I did play 2 hi-res files an HRX 176.4khz piece and a 96/24 file of lush life. Still the Museatex sounded better playing the redbook version of the 96/24 song. Did not have a low res version of the 176/24 file but it too lacked emotion.

It is worth mentioning that the DCC-1 can't touch the Bidat in terms of sound.

I think people are going to learn that high resolution is no Panacea for digital. I have another link on hear detailing the comparison.

Does the Accustic Arts Dac II cost twice as much as the Berkeley?

Rja, your assumption is quite correct. The Berkley retails around $5000.00 and the AA Tube DAC retails for $10500.00.