Wyred DACS

That's interesting because thats similar to what the experienced reviewer acquaintance of mine said about the WFS - the bass was bloated and one note. Personally I am not expecting that much of the Havana in comparison - after all at least here in Aus it half the price. Occasionally you find giant killers that surprise but that is not the norm. But you never know. Of course I will be giving my impressions and hopefully the owner of the Havana can chime in as well.

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Bill

Bill, that is not my experience at all, with either the DAC-1 or DAC-2.

I've heard both models in 3 different rigs and they had the tighter bass than any of the players/DACs they replaced.

That's just his view. I tend to give good weight to what he says because of his experience reviewing stuff - he is a reviewer for an audiophile magazine and has done tons of them. My view, as I mentioned in my initial post, is the bass has greater slam, strength and detail, not bloated or one note at all - but hey it was virtually straight out of the box. A much better test will happen Saturday.

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Bill

so , in the end the W4S dac is just another very good dac for his price , as the weiss dac 2 or tranquility dac, and audio-gd dacs. not really the giant-killer as it was anounced at first?

Juanito,

"just another very good DAC for his price, as the weiss dac 2" sounds like if the wyred was a commodity product...which I don't think is what people are conveying here. The Weiss DAC2 ($3k), Bel Canto DAC3 ($2.5k), Bryston DBA1 ($2.3k) and PS Audio ($3k) are considered some of the very best DACs in this price category and people here argue the Wyred competes or betters these at $1.5k for the DAC2 and $1k for the DAC1. Not bad in my book!

FWIW I have not heard any of these. I'm just tracking these threads as I want to make a move into a good DAC soon.

Horacio