NI Audio Show Belfast!!!!

[Fran]

Dunno but it had Lovely big buttons ....

Fran

[Matt]

Dunno but it had Lovely big buttons ....

Fran

:)

[Ken Moreland]

Great day out in my home town. Modest and myself tootled up the motorway early and were there around 10:30am. Excellent organization by David Campbell and his team from Kronos. Highlight for me was to play a few familiar hi-rez tracks from a memory stick through the DCS gear and Focal Scala Utopias, very impressive.
On the point made earlier in this thread, a lot of folk in the North have money but they don't waste it on wine,women, song , horse racing etc they spend it on classy hardware like hi-fi and cars , bikes, boats etc. I was talking to a guy considering spending 11000 pounds on an Oracle cd player and he wasn't agonizing over it either.

[Matt]

Hi Ken

That Oracle cd player in the pics looks stunning. I presume thats the £11000 one?
How did it sound?

Cheers
Matt

[Ken Moreland]

Hi Matt, it looked beautiful and sounded good but I didn't think it was very special. I think you'ld feel pretty sick if you paid that for it and maybe got a better sound from a Hiface!. I played the music from a little plastic memory stick through a laptop into the DCS/Focal set-up and the sound was stunning. But I'd gladly fork out the 25k for the AudioNote amps.

[Matt]

Hi Ken

Thanks for the reply.
What kind of money was the DCS Dac?

Did you get a chance to hear the ATC's?

Cheers
Matt

[Modest]

What kind of money was the DCS Dac?
Matt

[Ken Moreland]

Hi Matt, didn't really get a chance to hear the ATCs. The DCS Debussy Dac was 7500 pounds or 750 pounds one -off and 24 payments of 281 pounds (excuse this American laptop with no pound sign). Tempted ?
KM

[Matt]

Thanks Modest and Ken

Pricey stuff.
The Chord QBD76 is around the £3,250 mark and looks a lot nicer. I wonder how they compare sound wise?

Cheers
Matt

[Modest]

Thanks Modest and Ken

Pricey stuff.
The Chord QBD76 is around the £3,250 mark and looks a lot nicer. I wonder how they compare sound wise?

Cheers
Matt

Hi Matt if you are looking for the decent DAC have a look to this one as well,the price is around 2500$ and the reviews are fantastic of that little 2,5kg box
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/antelope/zodiac.html