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Yes, the DEXA's, to me, were head and shoulds above the Bursons. The Bursons were very mellow and DEXAs seemed to match the Salk speaker's capabilities well.
Hi Guys,I think I prefer listening to the EE dac plus with the tube in the circuit and the one dexa opamp option. While I think using the ss and two dexa opamps in the circuit provides a bit more clarity the extra tubey sound of the midrange using the tube option sounds a bit better to me. Anyway I'm getting superlative sound from my system now. I didn't consider the burson opamps because they were a bit more expensive and I would have had to leave the top cover of the dac.Cheers Rod
Hi All and Happy Holidays!I just installed the Dexa discretes into my ee dac plus earlier today; these are replacing the 2107/827 combo that I've been using. I am finding them to be sort of "bright" and am wondering about break-in. Any thoughts would be appreciated.Paul
At first, I thought the Dexas were making my EE Plus DAC "bright" also; however, I found out the EE Plus (at least mine) had the output phase reversed, i.e. pushing the phase button to red (reverse) light actually gave the correct phase, which was considerably more musical and warm, less thin and hard.. Try it both ways
So, I have about 50 hours on the Dexa's now and the brightness/glare has calmed down and is much improved. Unfortunately, now the bass has changed for the worse, it is somewhat more bloated and there seems to be heavy overtones. I have tried Jon's suggestion and switched the phase button and this helps somewhat. I'm hoping that with some more hours on them this will correct itself, but i don't know....
I hate it when someone does this to me, but I still want to comment. I'm VERY surprised by comments about the absolute phase button. Reversing it should do very little to the sound. At least this is true for me. Jim Smith from Get Better Sound states that the absolute phase is "correct" when you play a track with a nice centered vocal and the vocalist sounds closest to you. It is not an easy thing to determine. And please note that it is absolute phase I'm talking about. Not the phase between speakers. As far as break-in on the opamps, I'm not surprised that you will hear points of weirdness in the bass at this stage. Bass usually seems to be the last to settle in. Just give them upwards of 100 hours to fully break in. At that point you'll know if they are going to work for you or not.
I appreciate your comments...I never heard much difference in reversing the phase through the switch on the ee previously, now there is a somewhat mild lessening of the "bloom" and heavty bass overtones. Thinking back to breaking in various cables and tubes I agree that the bass does go through some uncomfortable permutations before it sounds good...so, I guess that I'll just have to be more patient
I enjoyed the EE dac very much when I had it and like the Dexa's best. With the huge influx of DSD-capable dacs the EE just can't stand up to the competition. In a different league for sure, but my Lampizator can run circles around the "lowly" EE. And when you throw in dacs like the BMC and others at or around $1600 why wouldn't you stretch for that next step up in performance? I liked the tube and chip rolling accommodation of the EE but in the end it seemed to be ahead of its time but then behind as others were planning their releases.
