MSB Technology The Analog DAC Follow Up
“The Analog DAC does not sound digital and that is a very good thing. Music played through it sounds relaxed and natural with an overwhelming sense of ease. Music flows smoothly and sweetly nearly pouring out of your speakers. There’s an uncanny sense of space, a layering of sound from front-to-back that the Analog DAC just nails to an extent I have not heard before in my humble abode. This layering also accounts for a nearly 3-dimensional quality to the sounds of music, pulling you into the performance as opposed to being kept at a distance by a flattened, less natural-sounding sound image.
The Analog DAC is also finely detailed and wonderfully textured. You get the feeling of an instrument’s complete voice, of hearing things as they were originally captured in performance. This holds regardless of your music’s complexity.With the MSB DAC, I get more of a sense of hearing into the performance, of a finer grained level of reproduction while avoiding any kind of harshness, edginess, or etch endemic of digital playback.
I’ve also had the opportunity to hear the Analog DAC at a few hi-fi shows and even though we’re talking very different room and system contexts, I would say that the Analog DAC’s main traits travel with it. That is to say it has always sounded smooth, detailed, and completely natural. It is very easy to like and very easy to listen to over long periods of time as I found myself never tiring of listening to music through it regardless of how much time I had already spent just listening. So people who find themselves concerned with digital replay’s tendency to sound overly etched, bright, and ultimately fatiguing can rest assured that The Analog DAC has done away with digital’s unnaturally hard edges and replaced them with a natural sounding ease and an easy musical flow. ”
