Paging Stanwal-Any update on the Metrum Octave

Stanwal. I began the ordering process with the email late Saturday night from California. Cees Ruijtenberg responded promptly within two hours early Sunday a.m. informing me of the 6-7 week lead time and asking permission to continue. So the ball is rolling.

I'm usually a stickler for auditioning audio products. So far everybody who's spent any time listening to this DAC has compared the Octaves level of performance with a select few other widely accepted and very expensive converters I have never even seen. I guess I need to attend more audio shows.

Anybody reading this should be reminded the Metrum Octave has a limit of 176.5 kHz. BFD! In my case, with almost 2300 LP's, 728 CD's, 8 SACD's, and only 3 24 192kHz downloads. With so many of my old fogey LP's never even making it to CD digital is not a major audio focus but that damn Squeezebox is dope.

While thumbing through the many DAC reviews I saw the Metrum and quickly dismissed it being from Europe with service in mind. It was your post that returned me to the 6 Moons review. Thanks

I am getting close to pulling the trigger on one of these DACs, can anyone post this HiFi Critics review?
Thanks

Most of their reviews are not on line as they take no ads and support the magazine by sales of it alone. Look at their Colloms rating for CD players and dacs; the Metrum right out of the box scored 185 on this scale. You can order the back issue of the magazine or possibly order the review alone. In any case they are selling for about as much used as they cost new so you wouldn't be risking much.

I thought nobody listened to reviews.

You were wrong.