Regarding the Accustic Arts Tube dac
DM write :
This was one of my friend’s machines and I borrowed it for a weekend. I connected it up to my CEC and the AA DAC gave a very nice warm sound from its tube outputs. It didn’t offend anyone. We were able to listen to it without fatigue. Vocal was solid and the bass has good energy. It had two outputs and the solid stage output was slightly cleaner but thinner and less body. We all preferred the tube output.
However, the downside was that the AA DAC has a very 2D sound stage and the sound was very much clogged, also the highs were not very refined and felt fuzzy. The whole orchestra (Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Requiem) seems lump together in the center of my speakers, it lacked transparency and speed and all this made the music boring. YoYo Ma playing the Prelude from Bach Cello Suite No.1 was vague, slow and dull. Plus it didn’t have a USB input, so on the next Monday, it’s back to in his owner’s house.
As you can see from the picture of Accustic Arts Tube dac , it do not have tube output or solidstate output.
Seems that something is very wrong about the review
