New System New Dac Berkeley Alpha Reference Series 3 - Any experience?

Which Dac would you choose?

  • Berkeley Alpha Reference Series 3

    Votes: 2 40.0%
  • Weiss Helos

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • EMM Labs DA2 V2

    Votes: 2 40.0%
  • Playback designs mpd-8

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Esotaric N01XD

    Votes: 1 20.0%
  • Ideon EOS DAC

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mola Mola Tambaqui

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • Total voters
    5
Sep 10, 2022
63
46
20
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I am putting together a new System I have had my all tube Mac system for a while I want to see what I can do with modern SS. For the AMP/Pre im leaning toward finding a nice used Pass labs XP32 pre and XA class A amps , speakers will be the Jbl 4367's.

These are the Dacs I am going to be trying to demo.

Berkeley Alpha Reference Series 3
Weiss Helos
EMM Labs DA2 V2
Playback designs mpd-8
Esotaric N01XD
Ideon EOS DAC,Time,Stream
Mola Mola Tambaqui

The Berkley is very interesting to me has anyone had the opportunity to compare?
 
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