Any Wadia users extant?
I have a Wadia S7i, and for any bit rate it can handle (it maxes out at 24/96) I haven’t heard anything better (granted I haven’t heard a full Vivaldi stack.)
I’ve auditioned the Oppo UDP-205, PS Audio Directstream (though not with Snowmass), ARC Ref CD 9, Schiit Yggdrasil and Ayre QX-5 Twenty, and all failed to meet the soundstage thrown by the Wadia (though the Ayre was a tiny bit more detailed, the loss of left to right soundstage width compared to the Wadia wasn’t worth it for me.)
Since I don’t have a dCS dealer within a few states of me, I only get to hear them at RMAF.
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