Experience with Metrum Octave DAC

Suppose to ship Feb 19; I would be tearing my hair out if I had any. The Canadian distributer is selling them for about what the factory charges so if I had waited I could have got one faster but they were saying that the price would go up after the first of the year; it didn't , which is good news. I ordered mine in mid Dec. so 8 weeks more or less between ordering and shipping. Looking forward with great interest; have two good dacs but the Metrum is suppose to be in a totally different class. Makes some other dacs look way overpriced if it is half as good as reviews say; will post a review when it gets here and it breaks in a little and I can have the local audio group weigh in after listening.

Stanwal, that's some lead time. There's no way to audition and it sounds like resale would be ripe if one needed to. There is more positive comments on a Audiophilleo and Stello U3 reviews.

Thanks for the response

Vic

Vic,

I'm very interested in the Octave as well. Because of funds, I have to wait a bit before buying, so I'm using this time to research and make sure it's the best buy for me. I have also seen those reviews, plus the very good feedback from several users. I haven't seen feedback from it being used with a Squeezebox Touch, though, as I plan to do. From your other post it sounds like you are planning to do the same. Please post your impressions once you get to try it!

Good luck!

Lewinskih01, this being my first DAC, other than the Touch's analog outs, I've nothing to compare it to. Keep in mind the lead time for the Octave is 5-7 weeks.

I'm told, barring any poor reception, the Airport Extreme should stream more than enough bandwidth for the touch. Still, I haven't heard of a comparison between the Touch being directly fed by a Mac Minior or over wifi.

Maybe someone here can answer that?

stanwal, what is the link to the Canadian Dist. for Metrum?
Thanks,
Guy