Evo šta kaže o razlikama jedan vlasnik Weiss-a 202 u odnosu na M-DAC, a pomenut je i M2Tech Young....The Mdac doesn't use a wall wart, it actually uses a pretty damn hefty in line transformer to feed the internal rectification and smoothing stage. The transformer is as big a hunk of metal as you'll see in a dac, certainly it's twice the size and VA rating of the one inside my Weiss 202.
In fact the entire PSU section inside the Mdac is twice the size of what exists inside the Weiss, more low ESR smoothing caps, more diodes, more individual power rails, it's just more.
I'm fortunate enough to know John the designer and I actually have 'his' pre-production unit sat in my rack alongside my Weiss. Up until a week or two ago I also had the Young with an upgraded external PSU to compare the Mdac with.
The comment that the Mdac might be closer to the Arcam rdac than the Weiss is seriously wide of the mark, the Mdac is snapping at the heels of Weiss in terms of sound quality and in terms of functionality, interface and VFM simply wipes the floor with the Weiss at about 1/8 of the cost.
Compared to the Weiss the Mdac lacks a little in microdynamics, it's not quite as real sounding, but only marginally so, and it's a little darker sounding. But it loses very little to the Weiss and is a huge step up for the sub £500 usual suspects. I haven't heard the Ayre in my system but I did hear the Mdac and Young back to back and the Mdac was cleaner and less abrasive at the top end.
It's actually a very good dac, if you like the sound it makes then given the features there's nothing else at up to twice the price that I would consider serious competition. Of course there's no accounting for a preference for older multibit and NOS dacs so YMMV.
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