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Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
You might want to be careful as you consider the Musician Aquarius DAC or any DAC from Musician, especially what you see and read about it. Apparently much of Musician’s output is sourced from Denafrips but may or may not be up to the Denafrips st... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
You know Mr. @milpai, there's an easy solution for your dilemma.   You've been lurking around here since mid-November AND you've done your due diligence AND you think the Musetec is overpriced for what it is physically AND it costs more than othe... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
Someone once said, there are fools and then there are damn fools! The Musetec is a DAC; that’s all. Show us the inside of the Okto you’re writing about. That’s also just a DAC. Most of the inside space of the much smaller Okto case is, in fact, e... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
@toddk31  Just for the record, the bashing begins now.  Amir does what he does very well.  What he apparently cannot do is listen and evaluate on that basis.  As for the 005, take out all of the SOTA capacitors for example and replace them with c... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
@turcoda  @kairosman  I've had my 005 for a year now and have followed the very busy 004 forum on head-fi (4353 posts) for over 5 years before that. I've read about a lot of interaction with Jinbo and have had some myself.  He is proud of his prod... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
@turcoda I don’t see the point of a USB card. In effect the DAC is your USB card. If you send it back to Shenzhen, tell them it’s defective with the video as proof. That should minimize your cost to return, perhaps to nothing. They might give y... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
@turcoda If you’re a software engineer you must know more about this stuff than I do. But, the laptop I use is a small old ASUS running a Pentium and it works perfectly using JRiver. I have often thought that because it’s cheap and small (runni... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
@curiousjim  It's for the remote.  
Holo May KTE vs Meitner MA3
@abramsmatch  An erstwhile reviewer in these parts, I just wanted to compliment the common sense approach in your carefully written posts.  I look forward to your next post when the weed wears off.😀 @branislav  One quickly learns that the correla... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
@turcoda Sorry to hear about these difficulties. I have been using this device for over a year now with absolutely no problems. I use it primarily to play music but have used it with videos, both from DVDs and streams, though with my set-up sound... 
How do I get the best soundstage?
Azimuth, azimuth, azimuth. Correct azimuth provides maximum separation, the critical step in sound-staging. Small adjustments can be heard. All these folks are telling you many things including how to spend your $$. Fact is, if it doesn’t come of... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
@dbb  Your post is, as always, enlightening.  As you write, it is a matter of perspective.  I remember old posts on Audiogon suggesting that the Holo May R2R provides a middle-of-the-hall sound rather than the up-close sound of a SD chip.  This i... 
Review: Holo May (L2) DAC and the Musetec Audio (LKS Audio) MH-DA005 DAC Compaired
Given a number of recent posts on this very subject perhaps this thread could use a lift.    
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
@debjit_g This post comparing the Musetec and the Holo May was by teknorob23. He had earlier written here that he preferred the Musetec to the $13,400 Mola Mola Tambaqui. And, of course, I’m certain based on a lot of reading on the subject that ... 
Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC
@ja_kub_sz I'm looking forward to your report-comparison to the $13,400 Tambaqui.  They've already been compared on this thread by someone.  I love these David v. Goliath trials.