RMAF 2014 Official Photo Thread

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Thank you David.

Friends love the Berkeley DAC. I'd love to hear the Reference DAC. They make great sounding gear.


Design Audio Video said:
Joe
That is what Michael Ritter sad at Berkely. Also, the reason he is not at the show this weekend. I spoke with him Thursday and that is what he told me He didn't say all of them were the reference DACs but that is what we were talking about.
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Nelson/Mike,

You have to tell me more about this amp, holy cow!

Love it!

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Nelson, do tell more about the Vapor and Spatial rooms, as well as the Consonance gear. Those look VERY interesting.
 
Nelson - I saw in an earlier post that you really liked the Bricasti DAC. Can you share your impressions? I heard it a year ago at RMAF and was very impressed.
 
KeithR said:
How was the Zu and Spatial rooms, dudes?
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Zu's are in three rooms. Two of the three sounded less than ideal. The third was "ok".

The Spatial room was simple and sounded pretty good.


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KeithR said:
How was the Zu and Spatial rooms, dudes?
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I heard several rooms that had Zu speakers and Zu speakers definitely have a sound. I think I understand why people who love only digital love Zu speakers (two brights don't make it wrong or something like that). I did get a chance to play a couple of LPs I brought with me in the Shroeder room so that was cool. Seriously, I will have to look at the notes I took because I did scribble some things down as I was listening to the Zu speakers.

I did make it to the Spatial room, but instead of playing music, the guy was just yakking it up with someone and my patience is about as long as a pecker on a gnat. Specially after hours of trudging from one room to the next and hearing far too many people running their jaws instead of playing or listening to music.
 
mep said:
I heard several rooms that had Zu speakers and Zu speakers definitely have a sound. I think I understand why people who love only digital love Zu speakers (two brights don't make it wrong or something like that). I did get a chance to play a couple of LPs I brought with me in the Shroeder room so that was cool. Seriously, I will have to look at the notes I took because I did scribble some things down as I was listening to the Zu speakers.
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Interesting, because I have never seen or heard Zu's demo'ed with anything other than LP's!
 
Ritmo said:
Nelson - I saw in an earlier post that you really liked the Bricasti DAC. Can you share your impressions? I heard it a year ago at RMAF and was very impressed.
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Mike

FWIW - I have the M1 & it is truly exceptional . It quickly saw off a Weiss DAC202, Auralic Vega , Wavelength Cosecant HS & a Bel Canto DAC3VBMKII in my listening comparisons . The thing that really stood out for me was image saturation - there just seemed more weight & body to instruments and vocals in my system . Runs a little to the dark side sonically , certainly warmer than my EMM DAC2X which probably has better detail retrieval and is more neutral in presentation. Build quality is off the charts , like early Mark Levinson. Customer support is exemplary . A real winner in my book though I should empahsise this is in my Study system - which is a near field setup with the VAC Phi Beta integrated and a pair of Tannoy Churchill Widebands which undoubtedly lent their own immersive signature.
 
Bob - yes, it sounded like a very nice DAC and I liked the built in preamp. At $9k it seemed priced right too. I think the Briscati room was one of the better overall sounding rooms. I will do my show report soon.


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Bobolaclune said:
Mike

FWIW - I have the M1 & it is truly exceptional . It quickly saw off a Weiss DAC202, Auralic Vega , Wavelength Cosecant HS & a Bel Canto DAC3VBMKII in my listening comparisons . The thing that really stood out for me was image saturation - there just seemed more weight & body to instruments and vocals in my system . Runs a little to the dark side sonically , certainly warmer than my EMM DAC2X which probably has better detail retrieval and is more neutral in presentation. Build quality is off the charts , like early Mark Levinson. Customer support is exemplary . A real winner in my book though I should empahsise this is in my Study system - which is a near field setup with the VAC Phi Beta integrated and a pair of Tannoy Churchill Widebands which undoubtedly lent their own immersive signature.
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Curious if you have tried the Bricasti DAC in your main rig and compared it to your EMM DAC with Q3s? Does it change in character from your office set-up. When I heard the Bricasti it was in an all Ayre chain (KX-R and MX-R) driving Sashas at a Wilson Audio demo and I must say in that system everything sounded resolving, neutral across the frequency band, and quite transparent and open. So just curious if your assessment of it leaning towards a darker presentation has more to do with the Tannoys and the VAC integrated :dunno:
 
cmalak said:
Curious if you have tried the Bricasti DAC in your main rig and compared it to your EMM DAC with Q3s? Does it change in character from your office set-up. When I heard the Bricasti it was in an all Ayre chain (KX-R and MX-R) driving Sashas at a Wilson Audio demo and I must say in that system everything sounded resolving, neutral across the frequency band, and quite transparent and open. So just curious if your assessment of it leaning towards a darker presentation has more to do with the Tannoys and the VAC integrated :dunno:
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Sorry - should have clarified . In my main rig - I pretty much got the same presentation through the Q3's . To my ears , the Bricasti almost had a tube-ish / borderline Class A kind of glow without any smearing or softening of image detail. A great piece.
 
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