[ylee]

Two months into ownership and with my Melco N1A/2 feeding it, the d1-twelve after a hefty amount of hours burning in is proving to be a sublime source component that brings out the full measure of the music I play. The amount of musical information is enormous. It utterly cleans the window thru which music is presented. Instruments and voices are clean, clear, and articulate. The dimensionality too is elevated where certain sounds seem to emanate from a point closer than the location of my speakers. Music envelops me - no doubt partly a function of my room treatments. But I didn't get this effect with my previous DACs. It's also not so much about the sound of my system anymore. It's about the recorded event presented with as little haze of time and place as possible. It's musical, emotional, encompassing, and immersive. I know my hyperbole is thru the roof. But this really is an incredible DAC. It blows away any DAC I've owned before and sounds better than anything I've heard in hi fi stores. I don't think I've heard vinyl that sounds better either. Recordings from the 60s to the present sound good if they were recorded and mastered well.

Highly, utterly, and enthusiastically recommended.