@dbb Thank you. Will do. I'm using XLRs. I'll try RCAs.
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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Not aware of any pre-made mods, but using the RCA outputs I'm getting a very reasonable ~2V peak output. If that is still too high, two good quality resistors per channel should help (e.g. 10.0k + 24.3k 1% in series, picking up the signal for your pre from the 24.3k will give you a -3db with a reasonable impedance match) |
@car123 Congratulations, you're in exact same boat as I with streaming setup, in fact I feel the same way about my entire system.
So even with things seemingly 'perfect', I still reflexively seek change or to be more concise, change seems to seek me out. So saw Western Electric 300B tubes on sale over holidays, purchase as comparisons to Psvane Acme, result greater transparency, resolution, sweeter/greater harmonic development. Salient point with this is now my streaming setup and 006 now that much better, I could describe the 006 as one sweetheart of a dac where as when initially inserted and using same setup as previous 005 thought it only marginally better than 005, and perhaps lesser than my Laiv Harmony. Adding the Gaia, I2S and WE tubes has extracted more of the potential of 006. And this is the universal case for every component we bring into our systems, how can we know when we are extracting max potential from any component?
@vinylvalet Yep, go to the RCA outs, I believe half the voltage of XLR. Now the issue is I posit the XLR outs in 006 may be superior to RCA as this is balanced design. I run a Coincident Statement preamp with dual transformer based volume control so no remote volume control, my solution (this with XLR) is running volume on Coincident such that I'm running 006 digital volume at close to 100% at virtually all my normal listening volume. I've found that bit striping isn't a consideration if 006 is running at somewhere between -5, -6db up. And this way I have at least some fine remote volume control without having to get up and turn two manual volume controls all the time.
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It would be interesting to know what line stage(s)/preamp(s) you are using. The output specs for the 005 are: RCA 2Vrms, XLR 4Vrms The same for the Gustard X30 Quad Core ES9039SPRO DAC which is probably designed for a larger distribution: RCA 2.5Vrms, XLR 5.1Vrms. So I judge the 005 to be within a normal range. A solution could be to install resistors in RCA cables or use a device (British, I think) with RCA jack at one and, plug at the other and resistor in between. I don't know if there's a similar device for XLR.
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