Burson Discretes
May 10, 2007 23:01:43 GMT
Post by Sol on May 10, 2007 23:01:43 GMT
In the words of a ex-footballer, in one of my favourite films, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, "Gentlemen, it's been emotional!"
I'm moved .. no really. Never, in the history of tweaks have I been so impressed with a single mod. Last night I removed the standard last pair of opamps from my X-DAC V3, and replaced them with the pair of twin Burson Audio discrete opamps. No additional caps, no diode changes - just a straight swop. The diffference is quite frankly night and day. Music simply "is". No obvious colouration, no variance in the image with volume, nothing forward, nothing fronted, simply warmth, balance, staging, and front to back, side to side separation. Two channel bliss!
There's detail in abundance, but not at the expense of warmth. From Foot tapping rythmn to wrapped up in silky smoothness. Whatever I threw at these babies, I am simply rewarded with music with a capital M. Tracks that used to grate simply don't. Modern CDs that used to feel overly compressed, now relax and cosset. Drums, and bass lines match perfectly with the mids and highs. There's natural sound, in the room attendance, by all your favourite bands, singers, and instrumentals!
Classical emotion to laugh and cry to ..... Electronica to transport you away. Voices to enjoy and expression to wallow in. Simply music.
If I could find one critiscm, and it's hard to find, I could suggest that the speed, hit, and slam of *some* electronic tracks felt missing - but that's me just missing some of the interpretation the standard opamps gave to those tracks, that same sound I've grow accustomed to. This was a short lived observation as all the other benefits came to the fore.
Burson Audio should be congratulated! If you have some pennies spare, are thinking of opamp rolling, and have the inclination to tackle those thin copper tracks with a soldering iron look no furthrr you won't be disappointed.
Sol "seriously impressed in Cambridge"
I'm moved .. no really. Never, in the history of tweaks have I been so impressed with a single mod. Last night I removed the standard last pair of opamps from my X-DAC V3, and replaced them with the pair of twin Burson Audio discrete opamps. No additional caps, no diode changes - just a straight swop. The diffference is quite frankly night and day. Music simply "is". No obvious colouration, no variance in the image with volume, nothing forward, nothing fronted, simply warmth, balance, staging, and front to back, side to side separation. Two channel bliss!
There's detail in abundance, but not at the expense of warmth. From Foot tapping rythmn to wrapped up in silky smoothness. Whatever I threw at these babies, I am simply rewarded with music with a capital M. Tracks that used to grate simply don't. Modern CDs that used to feel overly compressed, now relax and cosset. Drums, and bass lines match perfectly with the mids and highs. There's natural sound, in the room attendance, by all your favourite bands, singers, and instrumentals!
Classical emotion to laugh and cry to ..... Electronica to transport you away. Voices to enjoy and expression to wallow in. Simply music.
If I could find one critiscm, and it's hard to find, I could suggest that the speed, hit, and slam of *some* electronic tracks felt missing - but that's me just missing some of the interpretation the standard opamps gave to those tracks, that same sound I've grow accustomed to. This was a short lived observation as all the other benefits came to the fore.
Burson Audio should be congratulated! If you have some pennies spare, are thinking of opamp rolling, and have the inclination to tackle those thin copper tracks with a soldering iron look no furthrr you won't be disappointed.
Sol "seriously impressed in Cambridge"
