So my dealer lent me a Luxman DA-06 DAC for demo...ugh! Big mistake cuz now I just have to have it. This thing is fabulous. Never has music in my listening room sounded so good. I honestly did not think a DAC could make that much difference. Wrong! It is light-years ahead of my current DSD DAC, the Teac UD-501. The Teac is not even in the same league. Not the same hemisphere! Didn’t realize how fuzzy my digital sourced music was until the Lux lifted the veil.
Every professional review of the DA-06 is absolutely dead-on accurate - it is smooth, musical and luxurious sounding. Almost liquid-like. Everything is so clear yet smooth.
Great synergy with my Lux L-507u integrated; it seems like they were made for each other. In terms of cables, I have tried both unbalanced and balanced cables with little discernable difference. Maybe the balanced is slightly better but that may be a result to a slight increase in gain through the balanced outputs.
Very simple setup, nothing crazy...I am connected to the DAC via USB cable (Moon Audio Blue Dragon) from a Mac Mini running Audirvana in playlist mode (NOT using iTunes). I would say DSD128 is as close to vinyl as I have ever heard. I mean, this thing plays PCM incredibly well but DSD is just plain magnificent. I am hooked. Anyone else hear this thing or am I just enamored?
Every professional review of the DA-06 is absolutely dead-on accurate - it is smooth, musical and luxurious sounding. Almost liquid-like. Everything is so clear yet smooth.
Great synergy with my Lux L-507u integrated; it seems like they were made for each other. In terms of cables, I have tried both unbalanced and balanced cables with little discernable difference. Maybe the balanced is slightly better but that may be a result to a slight increase in gain through the balanced outputs.
Very simple setup, nothing crazy...I am connected to the DAC via USB cable (Moon Audio Blue Dragon) from a Mac Mini running Audirvana in playlist mode (NOT using iTunes). I would say DSD128 is as close to vinyl as I have ever heard. I mean, this thing plays PCM incredibly well but DSD is just plain magnificent. I am hooked. Anyone else hear this thing or am I just enamored?