Brinkmann Nyquist DAC - technical jewel with marvelous sound

Cool! Love the modularity of the new DAC's like Brinkman and MSB. You can tell by looking closely at the two boards there are some changes in the circuitry. Have you tested any MQA albums yet?
 
Congrats on the upgrade! Curious to know whether they changed the ESS DACs from the older 9018 to the 9038 as part of this upgrade. Of course the specific chips being used only play a part in determining overall performance with implementation details contributing a large factor.
 
audio.bill said:
Congrats on the upgrade! Curious to know whether they changed the ESS DACs from the older 9018 to the 9038 as part of this upgrade. Of course the specific chips being used only play a part in determining overall performance with implementation details contributing a large factor.
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Nope, the new chip only makes decoding easier for simpler DACs. In the Nyquist the chip only does D/A conversion, sound processing is done outside the chip.


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AJR said:
Kuoppis - that sounds fantastic. Very happy for you. I think modularity for upgrades without upgrading the whole DAC is the way forward.
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Fully agree, that is the way forward.


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Mike said:
Cool! Love the modularity of the new DAC's like Brinkman and MSB. You can tell by looking closely at the two boards there are some changes in the circuitry. Have you tested any MQA albums yet?
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Agree. It is great to essentially get a new DAC w/o having to change the whole thing. Cost wise also a huge difference.

Listening to Kenny Barron now, sounds great. But I must say regular PCM also sounds great, so I am currently not so bothered.

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Kuoppis said:
Thanks Zaki, very kind.

This is a surprisingly good upgrade, you’ll like it.


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Hi

I have a shiny new Nyquist MKII sitting in my audio rack. How long will it take to “burn in” and should I leave it on all the times to speed up the burn in process.

Thanks
 
Hi "Stillooking",

our products usually run for a week in the factory before being shipped. As a rule of thumb, in a new environment burn in takes about 72 hours. Please leave the Nyquist on for 3 days. Playing music helps, especially when you switch between DSD and PCM. I usually just put roon or tidal to radio mode.

Best
Matthias
 
Stilllooking said:
Hi

I have a shiny new Nyquist MKII sitting in my audio rack. How long will it take to “burn in” and should I leave it on all the times to speed up the burn in process.

Thanks
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I am happy for you. I am sure you will enjoy your new toy.

Please let us know how it sound and to which previous DAC you had you can compare it ( I am still hesitating between the Nyquist mk2, the dCS Rossini (the DAC/player since I have 2000 CDs), Esoteric N-01 and the Auralic Aries+Vega G2 !)
 
Stilllooking said:
Hi

I have a shiny new Nyquist MKII sitting in my audio rack. How long will it take to “burn in” and should I leave it on all the times to speed up the burn in process.

Thanks
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Congrats, great news! Can’t go wrong with the Nyquist.

How does it sound out-of-the-box?


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Wow!!
Great price, it seems that the Brickmann guys are doing well not only technically, but commercially.​
 
nonesup said:
Wow!!
Great price, it seems that the Brickmann guys are doing well not only technically, but commercially.​
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I think it is a smart move.

Upgradeability is really key. I maybe I need to test their new preamp as well. Brinkmann announced a new version of their preamp, the Marconi Mk2 in Munich.


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Kuoppis said:
Congrats, great news! Can’t go wrong with the Nyquist.

How does it sound out-of-the-box?


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I am awaiting the arrival of a Wireworld Ethernet Cable and a Wireworld Toslink Supernova 7. Once this arrive I will be in a position to respond further.

Thanks
 
Good Morning

Still waiting for the arrival of the Wireworld cables, but the Nyquist II is already singing with a $20 Best Buy plastic Toslink cable. Can’t wait to receive the Wireworld Ethernet cable and supernova 7 Toslink. In the meantime, I have another question for the group. I am using the standard router that came with my cable package. Would there be an easily identifiable benefit to using a better router and if so what brands do you recommend?

PS. I am currently using a Bluesound Vault which scans CD’s to its hard drive, streams and has a basic DAC. As you can easily imagine the opportunity for improvement is huge.

My next step is a high end streamer and I am currently thinking Aurender or the Nucleus+Roon. Would also welcome additional comments on this subject.

Thanks

Jerry has
 
Following on from this, I would also love to know if it is possible to get a better router - have heard a separate power supply makes a big difference. Not sure how to go about that though and what I have read (albeit limited) hasn’t been clear.
 
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