All,
Nearly three years ago i came in contact with Peter and his forum.
Back than i asked Peter his advice about a dac that i would like to buy. Peter said to me if you can wait some time i am planning to build a DAC myself. If i remember correctly he was talking about a year or so. Well we all now how that turned out
The three years where very special that because of the innumerable posts he wrote about the DAC and the dreaming about it that came allong with it. Dreaming about the DAC and how it will sound was all we could do! Not anymore! Today i was the first who could pick one up at his place. It feels very special to be one of the first. Imaging today for me as D-Day and i dropped my wife and my kids in Nijmegen and drove to Oene in a almost white Holland ( Lot of snow yesterday). I drove with a bit pain im my stomach. I was thinking that it also is a bit said that the”journey” comes to an end today. No more building post anymore
But a new journey starts here and that is that almost in every country there will be one or a few of Peters dac's and even more important people who will enjoy this peace of
artwork.
After one hour i arrived at Peters place and when i came in the room it was obvious that a lot of work was done here. At least 5 dac's where smiling at me and really that was not all Peter asked me to take a look in the basement. My chin dropped as far as he could sink. On a large desk there where 10 dac's in a row with in the middle the wife of Peter (Ciska) who does the assembly and solder together with Peter. Imagine a room 14 by 6 meters and with a pile of 50? painted dac’s and all the other parts that combined will be the NOS1. So freaking special. From some parts there are 1000 and more. That amount only to keep the NOS1 affordable. Really my deepest respect!
And than came the moment that i put the box containing the dac in the car. I really could not hold them up longer or else you guy’s have to wait a day longer.
At home i unwrapped the box and screwed the new interface in te pc. I connected everything and did the installation that was required. That was really easy and almost no room for mistake’s.
Now there is 1 hour of listening exprerience behind me. And i like to write someting containing my first impressions! I wrote something before but really this is the moment to judge. Home with my known speakers and amps.
The most beautiful sound i have ever heard in my whole life! 
Every song is under so much control! There is no harshness wat so ever and there is much more bass. Like a thick blanket wich is drawn down from my speakers. Strange thing is though that my woofers look much more calmer and simultaneously there is a nice tight deep bass. Funny thing to mention is that at playing the number Get On from the album Yello-Motion Picture my woofers are under control where they before were NOT. Before i always kept my hand near the volume because of the strange movement of the woofers. As said now they just move a bit and i have never played so loud. The bass coming from them is so deep and nice to hear i almost can’t belive it.
Take Ibrahim Senso and his piano playing. Peter once said it was one of the best albums he has. I bought it and played it just now. There is so much much more body that it really feels that the piano is standing in front of me. You hear the wood and i think i hear him pushing on one of the pedals.
the enourmes amount of highs i am hearing is so strange, there are so much of them that i did not hear before and they sound the way they supposed to sound. What it is exactly i cannot tell you at the moment but it just feels like it. For now i will stop this took me 2 hours because of my poor English.
If you have the possibility to buy you really will not send it back! All i can say is that you really have to try it!
So back to some swinging here. ;-)
Peter and Ciska thanx for everything that you have done!
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