(07-19-2023, 04:27 PM)the_bertrum Wrote: (...) In truth I was blown away! There was so much more audible in the music, so many things I'd never noticed before, intakes of breath before the vocal starts, the sound of the finger pulling the bass string before letting it sound... Truly surprising.
Hi,
the same thing happened to me when I switched from a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (which I used mainly as a DAC) to the Eversolo Z8 pure DAC.
I got convinced to buy it after seeing the ASR review, but was already on my way...
There is so much detail just waiting to be exposed... you don't even need to go hi-res... I have listened to some CD-rips of my older stuff, clean 16/44.1 and I was literally blown away by all what I was able to hear now...
The Z8 is very surgical, where the Scarlett is more on the warm and round side, I really begun to love the ability to retrieve all those small nuances, of course without having the overall presentation becoming too sterile, which sometimes is the price to pay...
One day, maybe I'll get myself a Chord Dave, but then I'll probably need to change a lot of things all-around. That's not going to happen any soon... ;-)
