The Metrum Acoustics Octave DAC from the Netherlands delivers extraordinary performance for the price.
SOUNDS LIKE YOUR ARE PLAYING A LP, OLD SCHOOL ANALOGUE SOUND.
ABSOLUTELY THE BEST DAC $650 CAN BUY!!!!!!
SEPARATE POWER SUPPLY = DEAD SILENCE
SHIPPING ESTIMATED AT $25.00. PAYPAL ADDS 3.0%
Please check my perfect feedback on eBay and AudiogoN (both user names are Alfa_lover), you may buy in confidence.
SEARCH FOR GREAT REVIEWS:
TNT Audio Review: http://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/metrum_octave_e.html
HIFI Critic Review: http://www.nosminidac.nl/downloads/octavehificritic.pdf
sixmoons Review: http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/metrum/1.html
The "Octave" is a continue development of the Nos Mini Dac. Besides the different dimensions of the housing, changes have been made in the power supply and the number of dacs used.
The "Octave" is not using a wall adapter. A separate heavy filtered 15 VA powersupply is used and switchable for both 115V AC or 230 V AC. The power from the toroidal transformer will be rectified in the dac and smoothed by 26 capacitors with an equivalent capacity of 12.000uF.
For each channel 4 extremely fast industrial dacs are used and having their own voltage regulators. This approach will improve channel separation, avoiding mutual influencing between both channels and improves noise figures.
The sound of this dac let you forget that you are listening to a digital source
Technical specs :
Type of dac Non oversampling dac
Power: 14 VA external power supply
Jitter: < 40 pico seconds
Inputs: lx optical lx coaxial
Outputs: 2x gold RCA connectors
Max voltage output: 2 Volt RMS max_
Slewing rate 35 VoltfuS
Frequency range: 1Hz OdB until half sampling rate -3dB_
Distortion: < 0,04 0/0 THD
Noik -130 dB 1 16 bits -135 dB 124 bits.
Output impedance: 85 Ohms
Sampling frequency 32 tot 96 kHz sampling 16 of 24 bits.
Coaxial input is selected for max 176.4 kHz
USER REVIEWS:
Jim L. |
16/01/2013
I just bought this dac in store. Great service and this dac is fabulous! I haven't heard a lot of high end dacs, but I have an excellent ear and all I can say is wow! Great clarity, bass and fullness. As the reviews have stated, it has a very natural, rich, powerful sound with almost no sibilance. A no brainer, especially at this price point!
Rob Priore |
04/08/2012
Truly a groundbreaking DAC concept. It's how I imagine vinyl might sound if you had top of the line equipment and brand new records. I don't ever want to fool with vinyl and now I never have to!
Tom Jibson |
14/04/2012
This is one of the cleanest sounding DACs I have ever had in my system and I have tried quite a few DACs in this price range, and above, that didn't compare.
