Thread: Esoteric DV-50S
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Old 09-08-2018, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by SCAudiophile View Post
You may wish to compare disc playback of a current Esoteric model with streaming with the 2018 D2 as the DV-50s is a design that's over 12 years old. I owned one and it was very good but it is vastly surpassed by more current models.

That would be a fair and proper test.
Hey Thanks !
I agree about using current equipment. However, I'm not going to sink any more $$ into a spinner, but I may trade up my Lumin D2 for a stream/DAC (say a PS Audio DirectStream Sr.) and feed that with the DV-50s. I'm really wondering about the DV-50s as a transport ? I assume that the difference we heard was DAC related ? If not, I'll keep the DV-50s but only play it rarely. I don't have many (maybe any ) SACDs that don't exist on Tidal.
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