AudioNervosa
Systemic Development => Digital Audio Devices => Topic started by: rollo on December 21, 2015, 12:03:18 PM
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A new company from NJ headed by Peter Rippa and Carl. Well in a nutshell killer performance with this tubed DAC and outboard overkill tube rectified power supply.
Tonality is natural with no stress or HI Fi artifacts. We preferred it to the Weiss Medea using a CEC 01 transport. Using 101 or 45 tubes timbre was spot on. Harmonics and note decay off the charts. Top end especially cymbals were quite real sounding.
To date ALL DACs made SOLD after a demo at an introductory price of $5500. IMO worth every penny.
Going through a chassis design change to expose those tubes. My friend ordered one and I'm next oh my !!! No website as of yet being designed.
charles
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I've had a Vu Jade' for a couple months and it's a winner in all departments.
The old clichés about this and that sounding better is over.
Once you hear it, your pretty well screwed, you won't give a hoot about much else.
My most complex recordings sound so relaxed and beautiful I never want to stop listening.
Karl and Pete really hit this outta the park.
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I've had a Vu Jade' for a couple months and it's a winner in all departments.
The old clichés about this and that sounding better is over.
Once you hear it, your pretty well screwed, you won't give a hoot about much else.
My most complex recordings sound so relaxed and beautiful I never want to stop listening.
Karl and Pete really hit this outta the park.
Grand Slam baby. This one just may be the nail in the coffin for LPs. Or at least a tack. :rofl:
charles
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Tube distortion and dacs ... Meh. My Bdp1 into the BDA2 all loosened up and re-fused, running that Harmonic power cable into the dac works it perfectly.
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Oh Werd depends on design. DHT [ direct heated triode] very well done.
The Bryston is a good piece but does not the tone of this one, sorry. Right side of the brain DAC.
Bested the new kid on the block Lampizator [ tubed 10K ]& Weiss Medea [ SS DAC] 18K in direct comparison.
When one hears it hooked so my advice is unless one can afford it do not tease yourself. Cause your gonna want it.
The holy grail IMHO when transparency meets body and soul. LP's beware.
charles
charles
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You have to massage the tone out it Rollo. No dac comes at you perfect. You get that dac out and put her on her bad and give her a good tone rub. :thumb:
If you are going to tell me this dac doesn't need a good tone rub out of the box I won't believe you.
:lol:
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You have to massage the tone out it Rollo. No dac comes at you perfect. You get that dac out and put her on her bad and give her a good tone rub. :thumb:
If you are going to tell me this dac doesn't need a good tone rub out of the box I will won't believe you.
:lol:
Loosen those screws. Unleash the beast. It needs nothing but a good digital cable and Mad Scientist footers of course.
charles
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What I listen for is prat. The problem with cd transports is the unrelaxed sounding feed into the dac. Files are where it's at and file playback systems will always be the best sounding when streamers and dacs are built for one another. Same internal circuits and power supplies with asynchronous feed into the dac. It's because of the relaxed nature of the sound wilth no loss of PRAT. Too much tone slows down the sound and its shows up in filler-sound beats. Where is the balance?
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Once you hear this Dac, name brand Dacs on all levels become a thing of the past.
I heard/owned and compared top line Lampy, Yggdrasil, Wadia, EMM, Audio Note 5, Auralic, Berkeley, Bricasti and highly modded Museatex Bidat in my friends systems and my own, none of these came close.
There is an audition option, so you can hear before you buy, that's what I did.
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You are probably right I was just beng difficult.
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Nothing wrong with being difficult, I'm one of the worst! :lol:
As far as skepticism, I'm also difficult to convince! :lol:
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Just had a look at the new chassis showing off those tubes. Classy yet understated.
Gotta see those tubes. At this time no USB port however a USB/SPDIF converter is in the works.
Hey Salvo as good as it is you must try a Black Discus device and Magic Tube [ www.madscientist-audio.com ] on the SPDIF cable at the DAC input. Better yet.
Mad Scientist footers as well [ better than Stillpoints IMO ] bring out its best. Never ends. :drool:
If you want to try some PM me.
charles
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Charles, Not that I can afford it, but is there a website or more info on this dac?
Nick
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Nick, as of yet, there's no official website fully developed, however, I wanted to post a few internal photos here, but have absolutely no clue how to (yet)
Charles, thanks for the offer, but I'm still trying to post photos here from my pictures list in Windows 10 PC.
Can you edit your title thread to say Vu Jade'? Pete asked me about this last night, just wondering, thanks again.
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Anything I've heard from Carl's hands has sounded great. I'll bet this thing kicks ass.
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Nick, as of yet, there's no official website fully developed, however, I wanted to post a few internal photos here, but have absolutely no clue how to (yet)
Charles, thanks for the offer, but I'm still trying to post photos here from my pictures list in Windows 10 PC.
Can you edit your title thread to say Vu Jade'? Pete asked me about this last night, just wondering, thanks again.
The easiest way is to hit reply and when you get to the page where you type in your post, at the bottom left corner of the text box you will see the words "Additional Options...". Click on them and on of the options you will see is a browse button that you can use to attach photos from your hard drive.
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Anything I've heard from Carl's hands has sounded great. I'll bet this thing kicks ass.
In every way. Never and I mean never have I heard a DAC do what this one does period. The most un Hi Fi sounding DAC yet IMHO.
Natural tonality with so much dimension and harmonics just scary real.
Piano never sounded so real to me. BTW I cannot change thread name. Do not know how.
charles
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Pete called to inform me that he and Karl have been extremely busy with their regular jobs and family matters.
They are working feverishly to try and finish cosmetic touches and parts ordering for individual customer needs/requirements.
He reassured me they will finish the website with nice photo uploads and descriptions, so please hang in there a while longer, it will be worth the wait. :D
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Yes the new units will feature exposed tubes and a lower profile. I have their prototype phono stage in house.
We have another winner here. My loesch & Weisner is considered state of the art. Well it met its match. I'm in hook line and sinker.
The DAC was almost equal to my Loesch phono section. With Karls design NO MORE.
These guys got it together keep a close eye on them.Fools rush in and that will not be the case with them.
Nervosa waiting time for my DAC.
charles
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Living with the prototype now for a week to date never has digital sounded this way in my home. Just never.
You name it tonality, harmonics, transparency all there in spades. This DAC is a game changer and is going nowhere.
Should have a production model shortly that the local guys can hear and maybe listen to at home.
charles
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So Carl stopped by tonight with his new Vu Phono Preamp and we listened to it and compared it to my Sutherland. No contest.
Now the Sutherland costs way less than the Vu but loving that 16 tube sound. Just need to sell a kidney or two and I'm all in.
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I had the opportunity to listen to the 2-box Vu Deja DAC in my main system yesterday.
Very nice analogue-like playback. All listeners thought we were playing vinyl or reel to reel tapes. Very impressive! Two thumbs up! :thumb: :thumb:
My $0.02,
Pete