Eastern Electric's new tube DAC using ESS Sabre??

anyone have it or have heard anything about it? any reviews?
im quite curious about it.. price is $750 and they use the ESS 9018 sabre dac

mrkoven06-23-2010 9:07pm

steidlguitars Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 90 posts 06-29-2010 at 02:14am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Good question. Remarkably, I am sorry to say, I never compared them. My pathetic excuse is that at the time I was swapping amps and preamps and sources and cables and... oh my. If I ever have them together in the same rig again, I'll be sure to do that.
njs Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 30 posts 06-29-2010 at 02:38am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete My reason for asking is that when I compared my CD transport to my Logitech networked source through the EE DAC, the CDP clearly produced superior sound (to my ear).
joaco Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 33 posts 07-03-2010 at 08:30pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Steidlguitars, have you tried your Cary 303/300 as a transport for the EE?
joaco Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 33 posts 07-16-2010 at 03:03pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Any other reviews of the EE DAC? Anyone? Steidlguitars, did you try it with you Cary as a transport?
steidlguitars Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 90 posts 07-16-2010 at 08:31pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Joaco, I answered that question in my last reply (just look up a few posts). The answer is that I did not.