Lots of expensive parts were involved so it was not cheap cheap, I think about USD400 plus the SB2. A lot went into the power supplies and black gates everywhere. Black Gates work very well with NOS DACs - better than Auricaps.
I couldn't call the DA10 close to the Gold in my system, but obviously such subjective ratings are subjective. My system involves Nuforce amps too, but through Jena SCs and Verity Parsifals. I have owned the Blue about two years, the Black about three months and had the Gold on loan for 6 weeks. The Black is on loan to a friend who also finds it a little too lacking in immediacy in his system. It is a fantastic value, no doubt of that, clearly better value than the Blue. But I do prefer my Monica2, and the Gold was clearly more resolving and notes started and stopped with much less smear and more naturally. -- Jenks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jenks's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3413 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28369 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
