I Wish I Had The Cash. . . . Elgar/Purcell Deal

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  • David Meek
    Moderator Emeritus
    • Aug 2000
    • 8938

    I Wish I Had The Cash. . . . Elgar/Purcell Deal

    It's too rich for me right now, but I thought I'd put this out there for ya. There's a DCS Elgar DAC on Audiogon for $4,875 and it's companion DCS Purcell Upsampler for $2,200. 8O

    FYI, you're looking at about $20,000 worth of equipment right there.
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    David - Trigger-happy HTGuide Admin
  • TimRawson
    Member
    • Oct 2004
    • 92

    #2
    DAC's are a very interesting thing. Once you have speakers that cover the range and seem transparent, DAC's make the most impact IMO.

    Especially for those of us spoiled by computer as a source, aka music server. Running a cal sigma dac right now, and being swayed by tubes. Also going to be trying out a theta unit.

    I can't really get into upsampling though. I had tinkered with EMU sound cards and found that when I upsampled, I lost information. Someone try it, foobar or jriver upsample Norah Jones come away with me cd and I think it is seven days where a guitar solo gets faded. The engineer in me is perturbed by idea of adding resolution to 16bit/44.1 khz. Thus extremely interested in ack dack.

    Right now, it seems that the tube output stage of the dac i'm using brings out a missing track or band so to speak. A friend wasn't impressed by same unit as he thought hi freq's were lost. Haven't picked that out yet myself.

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    • Bam!
      Super Senior Member
      • Jan 2004
      • 2458

      #3
      David, I hear you loud and clear, that is an awesome deal!

      8O
      Got a nice rack to show me ?

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