First impressions of new MH-DA006, Musetec flagship

@car123 What I find most enlightening is we both have very nice vinyl setups and our nearly exact same digital setups are competing very favorably with those vinyl setups, goes to show how far digital and/or streaming has come.

Now, one thing I've been meaning to ask. Have you compared internal clock in 006 to Gaia clock (sync vs async), and what are your findings?

Sound quality still evolving for me, somewhere between 300 and 400 for both Gaia and Tubulus, I decided to just listen to burn in sometime back. Decay's and harmonic development are most noticeable changes. With both decay and attack coming into equilibrium along with more colorful harmonics presentation is even more analog like. Last night I was envisioning  an analog waveform and how digital tries to recreate this via sampling and interpolation, Gaia clocking and inherent qualities of 006 combining to make a much more believable clone of that waveform, not so much chopped up and individual samples, rather a continuous and uninterupted wave.

Just spent an hour in the sweet spot, sounding absolutely amazing.  Definitely sweetening, softening, focusing even more.

I tried async when I first fired up gaia and 006 but haven't tried it since.  Sync was better out of the gate and I'm still using the gaia clock..  You are as well, aren't you?

What I'm hearing is truly astonishing.  I've never heard my system sound better.  

@car123 You say this is the best DAC you have had in your system.  Can you tell me what you have had before.

@car123 Same with me, tried async a couple times early on. The difference easily heard within seconds/minutes, smaller sound stage, less spaciousness, this to the point I've never bothered to explore further.

@brbrock Noticed thread you started where you mentioned 006 might be too fatiguing. Where did you get this impression? I can't imagine a highly resolving dac being less analytical, more forgiving.  @dbb  had issues early on, don't know where he's at with 006 today. Don't recall seeing a single review anywhere on interweb stating 006 fatiguing. Some may project certain sound qualities on Sabre chip dacs, implementation is key. I did same projection on R2R prior to my Laiv Harmony, lower resolution, laid back, no excitement, this not true. 

brbrock, I said that my current streaming setup is the best digital I have ever had and that it rivals and perhaps bests my vinyl, although source quality has everything to do with what sounds best, as I expect you know. Some records are not bettered by their streaming counterparts, and vice versa, because of source quality.

My benchmark for comparison is vinyl, which is what I listened to primarily for many years.

I have a CEC transport and used a John Wright hot rodded musetec bidat for many years, prior to entering the streaming world 3-4 years ago. The bidat is a redbook DAC known for its analog like qualities.

My contemporary DAC experience includes Aurender A10 (passed on to friends), Rose 250 (second system), 005 (sold) and now 006.

What DACs have you used? What is the rest of your system comprised of? How is your room? Your power?

If your 006 is harsh, I fully agree with sns that it is probably an issue elsewhere in your system. Specific to streaming, I can say with certainty that I would not be hearing what I am hearing out of my 006 without my sonore optical moat, the signal and power cables I have in place, or my gaia. I have tried the 006 without same.

Of course, I would not achieve my current level without my power conditioning, room treatment, rack systems, other components, and a whole lot of tuning and tweaking.