Gustard DAC-X26 impressions and discussions

In Bcn SuperSonido, Werner, Lafarga ...
I should go around

and come back with more select questions

unless I get mad about choosing a random one and hope that luck is on my side

I said, thank you all

by the way:
https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/sergio-by-bcn.8919/

 

try not to spend more than $300 (and $100 even better) in this case

 

Mmmmmmmh
Topping D90 MQA (available Mar 1 , 2020 )

 

https://www.schiit.com/products/bifrost-1

https://www.superbestaudiofriends.o...rt-2-dac-review-stream-of-consciousness.7000/

I look, thanks, thing and speak

 

Convert 2 (2.400€):

Apart from this comment, as an anecdote. This one goes over budget. I'm going to watch the "Bifrost 2"

 

Bifrost 2 (700$ + 18$ remote control + 40$ Shipping + customs):

“I see you named your True Multibit architecture. What, was there a sale on trademarks or something?
No, we named it True Multibit™ because there’s a lot of confusion over what is really multibit and what isn't. Some companies refer to multilevel delta-sigma D/A converters (like the AK4490 used in the $99 Modi 3 and Fulla) as “Multibit” DACs. While kinda-sorta-maybe technically correct, this is pretty misleading. 2 to 5 bits of actual resolution plus massive amounts of noise shaping is not true multibit. Hence, True Multibit. We use True Multibit to denote DACs that have 16-20 actual bits, rather than multilevel noise-shaping delta-sigma DACs, coupled with our unique combination of time- and frequency-domain optimized digital filter, based on math first proposed by Western Electric in 1917, and developed into usable algorithms by a team that included a professor emeritus of math and a Rand Corp mathematician. It’s unlike any other digital filter today, and we believe it provides the closest thing to a true interpolation, while retaining the original samples as closely as possible. “

I like this one. Mmmmmh

 

2. Is Expensive for me

1. Is good, and Gungnir (200$ more of Bifrost2)
is good for my AudioResearch_DS135 AB my Magneplanar LRS? (Thanks)

Look:

Richard Barclay
"Gungnir Multibit’s sonic signature is intriguingly different to any other DAC I have listened to, and it was initially quite a challenge to hear recordings, with which I thought I had intimate familiarity, presented in this way. Music emanates from a distant, inky black expanse, ebbs and flows with natural fluidity, and possesses an incredible smoothness and depth that is reminiscent of a high-end analogue system."

"Listening to Gungnir Multibit it is like being alone in the auditorium; there is nothing to distract your attention from the musical mastery unfolding before you, and you can sit a few rows back, relax and fully appreciate the intended scale, dimensionality and dynamism whilst still being completely immersed in the experience."

"While the single-ended circuits are excellent, trading up to balanced elevates the performance to exceptional - and I dare say peerless - in this price range."

"Together, the two units complement each other exceptionally well and offer a seductively revealing, immersive and textured listening experience in which music is allowed to breathe freely. Their combined price-to-performance ratio verges on the ridiculous."

 

Ok, for Maggies more good Bifrost2


Here I explain my equipment, in order of output of the music:

Music player, I have everything in Flac: Oppo 203 (coaxial output), ApleTV (for AirPlay, optical output / for Tidal Masters) and the PC with Windows 10
Dac pending purchase (I now use an Anthem of cinema) (future: Bifrost2 ?
Power amplifier: Audio Research SD135
Speakers: Magneplanar LRS
2 SVW_2000 500w subwoofers

My intention is to connect the AudioResearch to the Dac (for the balanced output) and use the RCA outputs (unbalanced) for each of the subwoofers (it would be stereo subw)

 

I just saw that with “Gungnir_ multibit“ it is worth $ 1300 but it has no possibility of having a remote control of volume, so it is no longer useful to me ..

 

A friend write for me (Bifrost2 not remote control for volume)

“No, that remote you are showing is a remote for amps.
You can see remote for Bifrost 2 on the Bifrost product photo.

Button for volumes in amp is replaced by source selection (you can select direction you move) in Bifrost.
And yes, I own Bifrost 2. “

 

I am having Big D flashbacks.

 

Does the balanced output sound the same as the RCA? is that I have some problems with the RCA and a small background noise, that the balanced output would solve it. So the budget with Freya (normal or plus) would already go up a lot, I have to go back again. On AliExpress, the ToppingD90 comes out for € 631. The Bigfrost2 & Freya+ is about € 1800.

I think that economically I have to look back to the ToppingD90

 

Something I thought I'd never read, here

 

NTTTAPTS
Solid advice given was not the answer desired. Seeking confirmation for a choice already made.