08-Jul-2015, 16:32
(This post was last modified: 08-Jul-2015, 16:33 by GuillaumeB.)
(08-Jul-2015, 16:24)johnsap Wrote: For your personal experience, will you place totaldac server in the middle similar to
N1Z 10/10, totaldac d1 8.5/10 and N1A 8/10
Yes I still think that score stands. The totaldac and N1A are very close performance-wise although they do sound a bit different if that makes sense! The totaldac might be a bit more detailed. Whereas the Melco has a bit more of that analogue source sound about it.
The d1 server is due a hardware upgrade (new Cubox quad core) which apparently improves the SQ so it's possible the gap between N1Z and d1 server will close a little. I won't know until I do the upgrade obviously.
Guillaume
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