Listening to SACDs on the New Meitner DAC6

[bmoura]

FYI, I posted a review of the new Meitner SACD-1000 Transport and DAC6 DSD DAC over on High Fidelity Review at http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=18451723.

You may want to drop by there and have a look.

[SamS]

Great review, Brian. Thanks for the link.

[bmoura]

Originally posted by SamS
Great review, Brian. Thanks for the link.

Thanks, glad to help.

[ted_b]

A couple of nice references to Steve's good work on CCR and the Zombies, as well. Stuart refers to them as being some of the best available and were taken to a new level with the Meitner combo. (Let's hope so....$10K for middleware only).

[Steve Hoffman]

Alas, this is a toy for the very rich, out of the reach of most music lovers.

[Richard Feirstein]

Sure Steve. But with the magic of math and chip set design, once it is agreed that the expensive custom solution "sounds better", its design features can be incorporated into a chip set that costs $3.99 if you order 10,000 units. Give it a few years and both DSD and PCM circuits will start to really shine (if it is agreed that someone hit on a better design solution). We are already seeing better sounding professional mastering tools that handle multi-channel PCM and DSD and Red Book downconversions. In the end it is the mastering and the sound production that matters far more than the quality of the chips.

Richard.

[lsupro]

Originally posted by Steve Hoffman
Alas, this is a toy for the very rich, out of the reach of most music lovers.

So, I guess I won't find it at Best Buy? :laugh: