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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.

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car123's avatar
car123
114 posts
 

sns, nice vinyl rig.  I forgot to mention I already have finisar spf1475 installed in the sonores.

 

I'm heading to my dedicated room for a listen.

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brbrock
65 posts
 

How much capacitance does the 006 have?  I looked at the website and can't find it.

debjit_g
282 posts
 

Just curious, why does the amount of capacitance matter in a DAC ?

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brbrock
65 posts
 

In layman words the bigger the better the cleaner. Also if you can get it away from the other electronics the better.  

debjit_g
282 posts
 

IMO, it would depends on power consumption. I do not think the numbers are that critical for a DAC as other power hungry electronics, like an amp or a music server doing upsampling duties. On the contrary, there is point for most low power consumption devices, where adding more caps becomes redundant. It’s more important that a power supply has low ripple noise, low impedance and the caps has low esr. Given what Musetec designer have achieved with 005 (I don’t have the 006), I am pretty certain that the designer has this part squared out correctly. So if you don’t see a gazillion of caps, like Denafrips DAC, you can be rest assured there is no shortage of it either.

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