Look What I Just Bought

Zhaolu DAC D3.0

I have been thinking about an upgrade that would make the most difference in my setup, and this popped up. I figured for the price I couldnt go wrong. I have heard that these little baby's sound great.

Its being shipped tomorrow. should get next week sometime. Cant wait to give it a little listen.

elroy

I look forward to your review!

Todd, I've always found a DAC to be beneficial to my system, and getting one (actually four of them) was one one of my smarter moves.

Run a semi-decent cable with it.

Awesome!

ELNA BP & Duorex II capacitors installed in the power supply and analog section Wima & Nichicon Muse in Buffer Stage, Linear Technologies LT-1057 replaces the BurrBrown OPA604 Op-Amps in 2.0 version. Also, four digital inputs - inclusive a TG-Link high-speed buffer input. BNC, Toslink and TG-Link outputs.....just impressive!

Congrats and enjoy.

This post has been edited by clint e. on August 01, 2008 02:20 pm

figures. Todd gets a fancy new toy and takes all the credit ........ again.

actually i wanted him to get it so i could try it out.

I understood the Awesome and congrats, the rest is all chinese

and yes scott did see and said to ask clint if that was a good one.

elroy

Oh, from what I gathered, it's all halvsies with you guys.
You were looking at those DQ-10s (Not to brag, but I have a pair all to myself now), and one was apparently going to Elroy's and one to Dingus.'
It was a mirrored set, linked by many miles of open space and houses

The only DAC I have is the "Great $50 DAC" that another audio website set a run on. Entech 203.2. I got mine right as they started to spike for a great $60.
It's remarkable sounding with my Toshiba CD. Didn't work well my Adcom, and I want to try it with the Harman Kardon I just picked up. I was astounded how much clearer and more musical CDs became with a DAC. EASILY one of the best investments in sound I have made. Bang for de buck, dere.

sour grapes.

we shared everything then I got divorced

This post has been edited by Elroy on August 01, 2008 04:19 pm

Here's some Specs:

24bit/96kHz test results :

SNR : ≤ - 115dB
Dynamic range : ≥ 113dB
Total Harmonic Distortion : - 100dB ( 0.001%)
Stereo separation : ≤ - 111dB 1KhZ ≤-108dB （300hZ——40KhZ）

Impressive. Don't you think?

I have no doubts that you'll have an enormous improvement on your sound.

Btw, Zhaolu pronounced "Chow-Loo".




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not a huge number guy, dont like math or metrics. but over the years you see specifications over and over, and I havent seen too many in that range.

But what I always tell dingus, I cant believe that I can get anymore good sound out of what I got, and then I make a change and I am wrong. I am pretty sure this change will make another big improvement over the old entech 203.

elroy

Then, maybe you could do another improvement.
Well, i don't know what's your opinion about cables....but, whatever that is, imo when we start to climb steps in the hi-fi ladder, cables matters big time.
Maybe you could ask Grant or Speakerman to try out two or three sets of coaxial/optical cables and , why not a pair or two of speaker cables aswell?!

Just a thought...

Here's an interesting link about cables:
http://www.rdrop.com/users/twest/audio/#Top



This post has been edited by clint e. on August 02, 2008 11:12 am

i have a pair of tara labs i can loan you.
larry
p.s. just pm me.

i don't run a dac on my cdps. both are tube and sound just fine w/o to me.

is an entec an ok dac?