Multitest - DACs around 1500 Euro! NuPrime - SMSL - Metrum Acoustics
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- We have another great test for you. This time we test DACs around €1500 Euro. We have:
NuPrime DAC-9X
Metrum Acoustics Amethyst DAC3
SMSL VMV D2.
Three great dacs! Hope you like the stream!
Music used:
- Beth Gibbons - Floating on a Moment
- Royksopp - Every Little Thing
- Blof - Mooie Dag
- Mammal Hands - Spriral Stairs
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Love your streams! Recording, methodology.....the way it should be done!! Thank you!!!
@@rosenlazarov thanks!
Great job you guys. Always nice to see you compare different audio components for our listening pleasure. Keep up the good work! Cheers from Canada.
Welcome!
A 52:30 25:16 29:41 39:45
B 47:55 57:19 1:02:37 1:07:02
C 1:17:54 1:23:18 1:27:16 1:31:39 preamp out 1:37:38
D......................................................... preamp out 1:41:36
Any chance to include Holo Cyan and Denafrips Ares in near future?
Nuprime is great, also the amps. Moved from class AB to nuprimes class AD amp. It is really better
Leuke vergelijking, probeer de Aries Carat Helene dac eens, bijzonder mooi moet deze zijn!!
I have Amethyst with dac 2 and I think that it is amazing.
Very nice dac! In this case, DAC3 is a pretty big upgrade we noticed!
I love my metrum dac
Extremely useful comparison - thank you both. And I loved the Metrum.
I do wonder about the colouration comments regarding the Metrum compared to the SMSL. Could it be that the SMSL is lacking energy in the lower midrange and the Metrum is more accurate and so naturally "muddying" the middle midrange, just like what happens with acoustic instruments in real life?
I suspect the SMSL may be doing the colouring here by artificially making the middle midrange sound cleaner, whether by accident or by design.
Wouldn't it be great to get the viewpoints of the recording engineers for each piece of music !
I have the feeling the Metrum is a bit on the dark side. Also if you compare it to the newer Sonnet Pasithea, the Amethyst is a bit warm. But it's a nice kind of warm. Not muddy.
@@TheAlphaAudio I respect your opinion as my experience in comparing dacs is extremely limited compared to yours.
If you listen back to the Mammal Hands piece and compare both, you will hear the textures in the bass clarinet are quite different. The SMSL is ‘more correct’, compared to a real life instrument that is. Not that ‘more correct’ is the only measure here, I think the liveliness of the Metrum is preferred by a vast majority of people, who got to enjoy a DAC at home. The SMSL has a lot of other aspects which kind of take away from the listening enjoyment.
@@jmtennapel Did as you said and agree. Moreover both the piano and bass clarinet sounded muddy and boomy on my system* on the Metrum and the sound of the ride cymbal sounded more real and more enjoyable on the SSL. [* mac mini USB to Dangerous Convert-2 balanced XLR to pair of Geithain RL906, nearfield position]
Metrum for me in your system. It even has me second guessing my R26 DAC.
Yes. The Metrum is very, very nice...
Would be nice if you populated the “more” drop down with track info and product links
Otherwise like your content
Thank You
Added it!
@@TheAlphaAudio Excellent
Nice. Myself i have the B.M.C UltraDAC and the B.M.C PureDAC on my 2 soundsystems. I like them. If you call the company you speak with the owner. He is Spanish not German.
Thanks! And enjoy the dacs. They are very nice.
My discovery is also that the volume of your DAC has invluence on the sound. On my systems with the B.M.C's volume on 30. The rest of the volume controlled by my computers. The input level to your source.
You know the Smsl dac is discontinued and now unobtainable. Not sure the point of that section. Got me excited to try. 😢
Still for sale at some outlets here in The Netherlands.
Hallo, kunnen jullie Metrum Acoustics NOS Octave DAC aanbevelen als alternatief voor Delta Sigma DAC's? Danke
@@KajottR de Octave wordt al heel lang niet gemaakt. Deze is opgevolgd door de Jade en Onyx als ik het goed heb.
Спасибо за ройксоп
Welcome!
were can i see the list of tracks
We will post these asap
Added in the description
Thank you
wish all of you great vactions
@@wolfgangscherer2342 Thanks!