Topflight DAC from the past VS today's DAC on redbook?

[c1ferrari]

Bricasti received a lot of kudos at the recent RMAF show in Denver for their DSD DAC playing DSD music from Native DSD.

DSD DAC playing DSD --> natively...makes sense -- doesn't it?
No kludges

 

[bmoura]

DSD DAC playing DSD --> natively...makes sense -- doesn't it?
No kludges

Smart move by Bricasti. And they benefited as a result.

 

[bonzo75]

which Mussorgsky Pictures do you listen to? One of my favourite classical pieces of all time. I like Tugan Soghiev the best...also like the piano version by Mikhail Pletnev.
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Going for Mussorgsky's Pictures' Piano rendition at Wigmore Hall tomorrow

 

[nirodha]

BTW, since you mentioned the Krell KPS20i - one thing to keep in mind while shopping for an used CDP, is the drive mechanism availability. The Krell KPS20i uses the long discontinued CDM-9Pro drive, which is almost impossible to obtain nowadays.

Read the words about carefully because they are so true! As I recently discovered with my dCS Verdi (no longer serviced by dCS themselves)