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To your question about the Proton, I talked with another guy who's had a ton of the USB dacs including many Wavelengths all the way up to the $3500 Crimson. He said his new Tranquility is quite a bit better than any of his old Wavelength dacs including the Crimson. And he said that the Crimson crushed the Proton sonically (it should though for 3X the price!). I must qualify I wasn't there to hear all these differences but he seemed to have turned over more rocks than myself on the varios USB dacs. I wanted him to post here but he's pretty afraid of some of the other guys attacking him due to their harshness towards my thread. I just don't understand how anyone here could be so hard on a company that brings out such an overperforming dac for so little money. At this point I'm pretty convinced the Tranquility is in a whole different league.Logged
Just so you understand since I really don't think you have a friend with my products. The Crimson is actually $7500 and you can configure it using dac modules which include my Transcendental NOS module, Numerator 24/96 (192 capable) and Denominator 24(32)/192.As with all my dacs including the runner up for digital product of the year the Cosecant $3500 which is probably the one your "friend" has... all run on my Streamlength Asynchronous USB code which I wrote myself.The big problem with using controllers that are fixed at 16 bits at 32, 44.1 and 48 from TI/BB and Cmedia is that their effective jitter is so high in the 3300ns to 5800ns range.Compare that with even the Proton at 75ps or Crimson at sub 25ps.Believe me upsamplers, reclockers and whatever will not get rid of that much jitter.In the end it's does not really matter about the specs or the performance, it only depends on what you like.ThanksGordon
Since this a thread about another DAC and you feel the need to promote your DAC. There is a DAC shootout coming up in Texas (date to be determined) send your's along (Crimson) to prove your claims.Tom
I originally posted this on A'gon and saw there are some interesting posts on Audio Circle re: the Tranquility USB DAC from db Audio Labs. I hope you find it helpful for those of you into computer audio or thinking of getting into it.The Tranquility possesses the dynamic range that we've all come to expect from any gear that we allow to part of our systems. Bass presentation from the Tranqulity is terrific. By comparison bass was totally void with the Wavelength DACs. The Bel Canto DAC3 reintroduces bass but it tends to be a bit muddy and at times gets in the way of the music. Improved bass with the iRoc and the AMR-77 but none of them compare to the Tranquility as you swear it's coming from a source different than your loudspeakers as the seperation from the other instruments is uncanny. Same high praise for mids and highs from the Tranqulity.
Seems like trying to correct a potential misunderstanding of a manufacturer's product is more than fair. No reflection on Eric, but it's interesting how the emotional tenor of this thread doesn't live up to its namesake (Tranquility)
We did hundreds of comparisons as we worked toward our dynamic refinements on the NOS solution. In the end we actually managed to achieve the dynamics and scale that are comparable to the Sabre...with a much more natural timbre to boot!
So how much dynamic range did you end up with? Steve
Since this a thread about another DAC and you feel the need to promote your DAC. There is a DAC shootout coming up in Texas (date to be determined) send your's along (Crimson) to prove your claims.
Unbelievable!