Is Burmester 232 worth the price?

@madhusudan_ramaswamy 

Congratulations! I'm jealous! 

My next preamp & DAC are from LTA, should be able to pull the trigger early next year as a step up - and likely final - upgrade to those two components.

If you don't want it, I will buy it!

Please provide your feedback on this site once you have assessed the DAC.

@goodlistening64 Sure thing. I will upload a video this weekend when it arrives so you will know how it sounds with my 232. Thanks for suggesting.

I have installed 3WIIM products for friends and family. Including an ultra. While everyone is very pleased with the product, they all without exception, tell me how much more pleasing the sound of my system is. I am a fan boy of this company and will happily tell anybody who is interested about them. Hopefully, when you get around to it, that you’ll research these guys.

https://innuos.com/

Getting streaming right is sublime. Hopefully, you will find some Nirvana.

Strictly and practically speaking I’d say wait until your amp has broken in over at least 200 hours so you can see which direction you might want to go sonically with a new DAC once the sound settles because it could change significantly and there’s really no rush.  That said, I have some thoughts for you to research in the meantime…

I’m a fan of LTA and own one of their preamps, but their DAC is tubed and in your situation I’m not sure you want to start messing with tubes, and it doesn’t offer balanced connections that personally I’d prefer to use with your fully-balanced amp.  I’d strongly consider looking into the Denafrips Terminator 15th DAC for its combination of sound quality and price…

https://www.denafrips.com/product-page/denafrips-terminator-15th-r-2r-dac

Here’s a review of their next level down DAC just to give you an idea of what type of sound characteristics are on offer to see if it might be to your liking…

https://soundnews.net/reviews/sources/denafrips-venus-15th-r2r-dac-review-a-feast-for-your-ears/

That said, if you can’t help yourself there’s a lightly used Terminator 15th available now, so at least if it doesn’t work out you can likely turn around and sell it for little loss. 

https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650241770-denafrips-terminator-15th-dac/

@soix I love warm sound and should get warmer sound with the aero DAC from LTA. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.