Merry Christmas

[nc42acc]

Merry Christmas to me!

 

[sbnx]

Whad'ya get? Is that a select DAC? or Reference DAC? Premier?

 

[twitch]

Marty, you do know it's better to give than receive don't you !! So, what did Mike send you ?

 

[nc42acc]

Premier with Pro USB and the renderer module. Not sure why I didn’t do this 25 DACs ago.

 

[sbnx]

Premier with Pro USB and the renderer module. Not sure why I didn’t do this 25 DACs ago.

Very nice! We have all paid our toll on the DAC merry-go-round.

 

[nc42acc]

Burning in.

 

[Gregadd]

Excuse me. You did not open that before Xmas morning.

 

[KeithR]

Congrats. Burn in wasn’t a big deal on my Ref

 

[divertiti]

Congrats! I just joined the Ref club as well, what an amazing piece of kit.

 

[nc42acc]

Congrats. Burn in wasn’t a big deal on my Ref

Keith thanks for the reply. I had fun listening to it from out of the box to a few hours of playing yesterday. This morning after leaving it on I was surprised how the soundstage really opened up. I can only compare it to several times hearing a very great system with R2R tape as the source. Just using the renderer module at the moment with Roon. I cannot imagine the change when I connect the Aurender N20. Good times before Christmas for sure.

 

[divertiti]

Keith thanks for the reply. I had fun listening to it from out of the box to a few hours of playing yesterday. This morning after leaving it on I was surprised how the soundstage really opened up. I can only compare it to several times hearing a very great system with R2R tape as the source. Just using the renderer module at the moment with Roon. I cannot imagine the change when I connect the Aurender N20. Good times before Christmas for sure.

I'm not sure how much burn-in is contributing, but the MSB dac modules, PSU and clock definitely benefit from warming up and reaching stabilization before they sound the best. I find the DAC has been turned off and completely cold, it takes almost a day of being on before it sounds at its best again.

 

[nc42acc]

I'm not sure how much burn-in is contributing, but the MSB dac modules, PSU and clock definitely benefit from warming up and reaching stabilization before they sound the best. I find the DAC has been turned off and completely cold, it takes almost a day of being on before it sounds at its best again.

Thank you. I typically leave my system on 24/7 and only shut everything down if I am going to travel for more than a few days. I agree warm up on DACS can take awhile depending on what you have.

 

[Ron Resnick]

Congratulations, Marty! What a nice Christmas present!

 

[KeithR]

Keith thanks for the reply. I had fun listening to it from out of the box to a few hours of playing yesterday. This morning after leaving it on I was surprised how the soundstage really opened up. I can only compare it to several times hearing a very great system with R2R tape as the source. Just using the renderer module at the moment with Roon. I cannot imagine the change when I connect the Aurender N20. Good times before Christmas for sure.

One thing I should have said before is my network renderer was from my previous Premier so that may account for why I didn’t hear much improvement after 48 hours. I leave mine on 24/7 as well.

 

[nc42acc]

Congratulations, Marty! What a nice Christmas present!

Thank you Ron.