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BrianG
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« on: January 05, 2011, 12:20:10 pm »

Hi all,

I have joined the lucky band of early adopters for the NOS1 DAC, does it live up to the hype?
YES it does!  yahoo

OK a little more detail, first, I've been following the XXHighEnd and NOS1 development since Bert kicked Peter off his forum  Wink   

I wouldn't call myself an avid hifi nut but after years of searching for the holly grail of sound reproduction I stumbled upon Bert's forum and built the Oris horns with Onken bass units, I then stumbled upon Allen Wright's site, spent a day with him in Zurich and then built his DIY version of the DPA300b amps.  The pre-amp came from Bert as did the TwinDAC+ and I was a very happy chappy.

So I was content with my lot but why go for the NOS1?  Just curiosity I guess and with the almost "try before you buy" option it was reasonably low risk and of course the XXHighEnd software is optimized for the NOS1 so a no brainer to at least have a listen.

Well what does it sound like?  In my system before NOS1 it was if I had been listening through a curtain draped between me and the speakers, or like listening through something thicker than air (dense air maybe  Happy ). 

I listen to the NOS1 and the music has no cloths on!   Nice

The first thing I noticed was a headache, don't run the NOS1 without up-sampling with 16/44.1 material  oops

After selecting all the correct starting point options I immediately wanted to play everything I have just to hear them for the first time.  With the NOS1 I do hear everything and there is a certain pleasure in knowing this is "as good as it gets".

Thank You Peter a job well done! Good job !
Brian
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*W7 64bit SP1 on SSD*, XX on 1.2GB RAMDisk (Copy to XX-drive = On), music on SATAII, i3-530 HT Off / Engine#4 *Special Mode* / Q1/2/3/4/5 = 16 (samples)/0/0/0/0 (Dev.Buffer = 512) / not Invert / Playerprio = Low / ThreadPrio = Real Time / *Scheme = 3* @ UnAttended (Do Not Start) /Services Off + No Running Time / Octo Arc Prediction Upsampling / *SFS=100* @ *SFS.ini = 00* -> PC-to-I2S Driver latency 512 samples @352800 -> 24/384 Phasure NOS1 DAC -> pre-amp ->main amps
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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2011, 09:52:51 am »

Hey Brian,

Long time...  bye

...and welcome to the club!

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... I've been following the XXHighEnd and NOS1 development since Bert kicked Peter off his forum  Wink   

Yep, for everything there is a place and here it IS the perfect spot for Peter's XXHighend and DAC developments...  innocent

Cheers,

Bert
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Februari 1st: RDC controlled i7-4785T (set to 800Mhz - fully passive design without any moving parts), 16GB RAM / XXHighEnd 2.04c on 2GB RAMDisk (IMDisk) / Windows 10 Pro 10586.0 X64 on internal 250GB SSD / Music on external NAS / Playback Drive 10GB RAMDisk (IMDisk) / SFS 0.10 / Barbone Industrial Intona > Phasure NOS1a 75B (BNC Out) async USB DAC, Driver v1.0.4b (4ms) > Blaxius BNC interlink > BD-Design BD30-SPR amplifiers > BD-Design Custom Made Sigma loudspeakers.

XX settings basically similar to PeterSt's
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« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2011, 12:01:05 pm »

Chaps,

I have had the courage to remove my pre-amp and drive my amps direct from NOS1.  I was nervous but it all works fine, no pops or bangs from NOS1 and not having the preamp gain the XXHighend volume control stays well within the green.

Brian
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