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I actually think that's fairly accurate in the sense that the O2's share a pretty similar tonality to the L3000. The O2's do kill them in resolution and speed though.

Yes

Yeah there's nothing on their website about it yet, here's all the info on it I have from the dealer:

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man vs wild

I got mine from moon-audio for $2050 (they are an authorized dealer so you get a valid US warranty). They get drop shipped straight from the US distributor in California.

It's his custom SP amp that's what almost 2 years in the making now?

How about the Audio Horizon TD 3.0 dac? I've seen these pop up used occasionally and they look interesting.

Cankin, if they are only one month old why not return to the dealer and get a new pair.

Yeah just super glue it back in there it'll be fine.

Don't you have to switch between the sacd and cd layers on the Oppo? I'd be very surprised if it did it automatically.

Yeah it should be well over 10k, the he90's alone are going for anywhere from 8-8.5k.

Yeah right now the flash image viewer isn't compatible with gallery images. No ETA on when it will be either.

Count me in as long as its not in the last week of july or first week in august.

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.