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Apparently there is a new version of the North Star M192 dac, it's just being called the MKII version I believe. Seems to be completely redesigned, uses a new receiver chip, new upsampling chip and dual pcm 1796 dacs vs the cs4396 in the original version. The MKII also has balanced outs vs only single-ended outs of the original. On paper the MKII certainly appears to have a better digital section, but the output stage isn't discrete like it is in the original. Price isn't terrible either, $1375 + shipping. It's moved to the top of my list for now.

How about the Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 21? There's one on a'gon now for a little bit over $1k.

There actually was a used ECD-1 on audiogon earlier today for $1600 I think, it was sold in like an hour.

I have thought about that but I'd need someone to put it together for me though .

I've heard many nos dacs with the TDA chips and have hated pretty much all of them.

Has anyone heard the PS Audio digital link III dac? I typically despise PS Audio as a company, but it's one of the few under 1k dacs I haven't heard.

Good point, not that cheap but then again I don't want to spend too much more than 1k.

I've already sent a few e-mails about this and not surprisingly they've gone unanswered.

Doesn't matter the KGSS has single-ended and balanced inputs.

I'd like to get a dac to pair with my recently acquired O2/KGSS rig. I'm currently using my APL modded Philips SACD1000 but there's a pretty big portion of music that I only have on hard drives. I'd like to keep this as inexpensive as possible but if I can't find anything to my liking I'm willing to wait it out awhile. I'll mostly likely be using the DAC with a Squeezebox as the transport.

Nope I don't think it is at all, in fact when I've heard the He60+kgss combo in the past I didn't like it very much at all. Too much treble energy and the he60 sucks at getting tonality right.

Isn't this your 2nd or 3rd go around with hp2's?

Agreed, the O2+KGSS combo is really a treat to listen to it. Aside from all the audiophile accolades I could go on about I'll just say that it's a fun and very enjoyable combo.

I can certainly do that at some point but they won't be using the same source. They are great, hows that?

Thanks

O2 + KGSS

I've had the O2's since Tuesday bought was unable to use them till today when my KGSS showed up

I do tend to agree that there's a good possibility that many of the boutique audio products we buy aren't grounded properly.

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I've never heard of that issue, it's never been a problem in my ps3. Discs don't come out any hotter than they do out of just about anything.

No might about it, the PS3 will only do sacd over hdmi.

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