Aesthetix Pandora DAC

[Tomictime]

Thanks.....

Originally Posted by PLK

There will be Signature/DSD upgrades for Romulus/Pandora owners.

Look a the Aesthetix Romulus ad in the 10/13 issue of Stereophile. - "Now with DSD."

[Tomictime]

Have the Pardo linear power supply on the way for the NAIM....will get that sorted and report on sound changes vs. stock switched supply....

[Elberoth]

Originally Posted by Tomictime

Have the Pardo linear power supply on the way for the NAIM....will get that sorted and report on sound changes vs. stock switched supply....

Please do. In my experince Teddy Pardo PSUs make great difference. I have several of his PSUs.

Teddy is a great guy to deal with, too.

[Tomictime]

PS finally arrived intact from Israel after 3 weeks. guess I have to learn to wait...but worth the wait it is....

Powered up for a week now and about 15 hours of music playing....
Right out of box more drive, detail and a grunge layer removed!!!

have been doing a fair bit of spinning of the Wailing Jennys...One Voice, Prarie Town and Devils Paintbrush Road all show better depth, clearer vocals and better mid-bass drive. image depth improved by elimination of a grunge layer....Caused me to move the airporter connected the NAIM (control only no served music) to a dedicated circuit to isolate the internal to airporter DSPS.....another layer removed....

Will let you know what I think at the 100 hour mark.....

JD

[Tomictime]

100 hours and not much change from great out of box improvement. I did move the airport backmin due to it tripping protection or input sensing relay on DAC, which seems overly sensitive BTW..
aesthethix offering a DSD card and major upgrade of the DAC to signature level..anybody doing that ???

[Tomictime]

Andy at Vintage Tube Services has me rolling a set of RCA 7058 in for the Tesla ....will post up an opinion.....so far they cold becuas ethey are cold...ha.
Glen at Aesthetix sent me Andy's way while I wait for a Pandora upgrade slot....the upgrade is extensive and changes out the entire analog board as well as the DAC for a FPGA.....
JD