Concert FidelityDAC-040usedConcert Fidelity DAC-040 Tube DacConcert Fidelity tubes DAC-040 IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. Price is firm. Many excellent reviews Review: Concert Fidelity DAC-040 DA converter Category: Digital Starting in 2005 I worked myself up t...2900.00

Concert Fidelity DAC-040 Tube Dac

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Concert Fidelity tubes DAC-040  IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. Price is firm. Many excellent reviews


Review: Concert Fidelity DAC-040 DA converter

Category: Digital


Starting in 2005 I worked myself up the chain of the very fine DACS
built by Accustic Arts of Germany, finally ending up with their
Reference Tube Hybrid. I have auditioned over six very highly regarded
DACS in the last couple of years and found them to be quite good, but
none of them exceeded the performance of the AA Reference Tube Hybrid in
my system. I do not use high resolution material, only Redbood CDs, so
these auditions were only based on this format because my large
collection of music is composed totally of this material. Well, I know
nothing is the "BEST" in high end audio, there are many fine pieces of
gear when you get to a certain level of excellence. However, I thought
that maybe the evolution of DACS that play the standard format had got
to the point that it could not get really that much better. Each DAC
might offer different slight flavors but not a qualitative shift to a
much higher level of performance. It has turned out that I was very
wrong regarding this assumption after auditioning what has become my new
reference, the Concert Fidelity DAC-040.

The designer of the CF
DAC-040, Mr. Masa Tsuda believes in very short and clean circuits in all
of his designs. The analog section of this DAC is very similar to what
he uses in his highly regarded reference LS-080 linestage. They both use
12AU7's and a 6CA4/EZ81 full-wave rectifier tube. It took over two
years of on-going listening tests for Mr. Tsuda to find the NOS DAC
chips to use in his DAC, there is no over or up sampling and any type of
digital filters to be found any were in this piece, that delivered the
sonics he was looking for. Which DAC chips he finally decided on are
confidential and not disclosed. All the Concert Fidelity and Silicon
Arts, same company, pieces are beautifully built to an exemplatory level
including the DAC-040.

Why was I taken so aback by the sonic performance of the CF DAC-040, here's the reasons:

1) By far the most natural timbres and harmonic colors I have ever heard coming from a digital front end.

2)
The microdynamics and prat of this DAC are amazing, yet it still allows
the listener to relax into the music without giving up the punch and
kick of the music.

3) What I refer to as image density or a 3D
quality, what most would just call palpability, of each player with air
around them on a layered soundstage was the best I have ever had in my
system.

4) The CF DAC-040 creates a very open and deep soundstage
with great layering in a natural way that allows you to have the
illusion that your in that acoustic space.

Believe me, the AA
Reference Tube Hybrid DAC is no slouch in these sonic qualities, yet, it
was no were close to having these special attributes that the CF
DAC-040 was providing in my system. To use very subjective terms this
DAC has the most musicality/naturalness that I have experienced that
just draws you into the music. Dare I say that a lot of listeners could
be fooled into thinking that they were hearing an analog front end,
instead of a digital source, I think so.

I end all my reviews by
sharing that there is no "BEST" piece of any kind of gear, but many
terrific ones. Personal taste and system synergy always comes into play.
If your looking for one of the best Redbook DACS around today I highly
recommend you audition Mr.Tsuda's "baby", you will be in for a sonic
treat.

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/superioraudio/equipment/0809/concert_fidelity_dac_040.htm

http://hometheaterreview.com/concert-fidelity-dac-040bd-vacuum-tube-dac-reviewed/


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