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The initials post was the body of email that Kostas sent to me and considering it’s format he presumed that I will me post it on my site. So, I did it (with his permission). I ran all those tracks once (some of them just a few seconds) and below is very brief log or my initial impressions. The files were running off my DAW, via Lynx 16 to Lavry Gold DAC. I do not interpret the result and juts print my row data.

Sound Devices 744T, using it's line level ins/ADCs

1) Slightly thin
2) The piano player should be shot in his head
3) Slightly transient challenge in upper bass.
4) At lower dynamic ranges looses dynamics.

Metaxas - Wolfson ADC - SPDIF output to Sound Devices 744T SPDIF in

1) The kids have very crappy instruments.
2) Sound Very slightly flat and hollow.
3) Though the sound is “better” but less “pregnant”, those I admit that the performance is very week.

METRIC HALO with latest Apple Laptop

1) Some crappy “clinking” noise
2) The lowest octaves are absolutely artificial
3) Sever lost of resolution and transients
4) Compression, Tone… everything… the sound is completely cooked…. trash it.

PRISM DREAM ADC - SPDIF output to Sound Devices 744T SPDIF in

1) For some reasons the tone is not there
2) Imaging is further as in 744T but was flatter
3) Moderate compression
4) Sound has some strange inner-echo
5) Very low contrast

LAVRY GOLD ADC - SPDIF output to Sound Devices 744T SPDIF in

1) Some thinness
2) Deficiency in lowers bass
3) Minor compression
4) Emphasis of unnecessary and artificial details – I do not like it
5) Low transients in upper bass, poor upperbass tone.

KORG MR-1000 [DSD] with it's proprietory DSD-PCM conversion software.

1) Minor compression
2) Very poor MF tone
3) Actual very poor tone everywhere. Unusable

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