Updated Picks.

Hello all!

I have some new picks here for my favorites and deleted those items that I no longer carry. I will update the PV site shortly. Anyway, In addition to the alreaedy famous picks here are four new favorites:

The Teradak Chameleon

As Teradak gets closer and closer to a reference NOS DAC, we have with the Chameleon, a very reasonable stop along the way. In our pursuit of great DACs, we are looking for the dynamics, bling bling and articulation of vinyl, without a smushy soundstage. The Chameleon comes close to this as it has some of the resolution capabilities of the Musiland Modified, although it falls short on complex passages and what we use for the digital audio test tone, the piano. But, what a fun listenable DAC we have here – and most of your average catalog Class “B” or whatever DACs cannot touch it.

The Audio gd Reference One

While it is not as musical as the Brigatta, where you can hear throat smoke on the singer, the Reference One is my DAC champ. Why? Because it does everything right, so much so, that on the piano test, not only can you hear the correct initial tone and after tone, you can also precisely hear the after tones of the chords echoing around the wood in the piano. I have only heard this, BTW, with EAC ripped FLAC files through a CyberServer.

The YS Audio Symphonies R

There are resolving preamps, musical preamps, musical preamps that resolve and resolving preamps that are musical – phew!. The YS Audio Symphonies R is a musical preamp that resolves. With the tube upgrade, it is just so much fun because it gets musical timbres right. For the price point, purchasers of this preamp are going to get a price / performance that is out of this world. I just love listening to this thing and right now it leads the pack in preamps less than 1K.

The QLS CyberMini

Ok, putting WAV files on an SD card is a pain in the butt, but, for a couple hundred bucks, you will have a transport that can create such a jitter free sound, that it easily compares to transports costing 3K. When you purchase the CyberMini, you see what we are talking about that digital music should be played through a quiet, spin-less, motionless device that is hard wired and NOT wireless into a DAC. WAV files on the CyberMini excel at our piano test and the lower bass registers are properly produced. You will see what we mean.