我用了MSB Discrete 幾年，可靠高、靚聲音質穩定，最緊要是廠家Daniel 和Johnathan 有問必答提供一流服務，我由Esoteric upgrade 到MSB Discrete 重省唔少玩鐘錢。 I have been using MSB Discrete for several years. They have high reliability, great musical natural sound quality with wide and deep sound stage and stable high quality. The most important thing is that the manufacturers Daniel and Johnathan provide first-class service by answering every question. I upgraded from Esoteric to MSB Discrete and saved a lot of money.
You need the 2nd power supply as a minimum to realize the full capabilities of this DAC. You can also buy it with the Premier Power Base and later upgrade the DAC portion to the Premier as MSB gives you 100% of what you paid when you go up the chain. I have the Premier, and I started with the Discrete.
Thank you for your comment. I've heard many responses suggesting that using two power supplies makes a significant improvement. However, borrowing equipment sometimes makes it difficult to have all the options, so there may be some limitations. I hope to try the Premier DAC as well, hoping it will give me an excellent performance. (Ken)
Also wanted to add a pre amp is a must, the MSB DAC is optimized as a preamp if you are using their own MSB power amps as they are impedance matched for each other and you need the Reference or Select DAC as those have a far superior and proper analog stage which the Discrete and Premier dont. My pre is the McIntosh C1100 and power amp is the MC1.25KW. The C1100 is simply way superior and I dont believe any DAC can replace a good preamp.
Thanks for this review. I have the discrete dac with two discrete PSU. It has more analogue and musical sound compared to DCS Bartok 2.0, which provides more ambience details. I like the discrete best as dac/preamp to power amp. It is very transparent and detail. I find that no preamp is needed. That’s the way that MSB intend as they offer power amp for their dacs and no preamp or integrated amps. MSB remote control is a joy to use compared to DCS mosaic app for volume change.
@feverSoundHK In the settings of the MSB DAC pls choose high output, which is close to 4 volts and no problem. That's how I use it and also I have the volume control set as off - DSD optimized. Not sure why in the manual MSB says to use low output which does not make sense especially with XLR
In terms of sound quality, the A-3 is undoubtedly superior, with a solid driving force, but it requires some consideration when matching speakers, and its price is also higher. The driving force of the Boulder is more traditional American, able to handle a slightly wider range of speakers, and the price is also more affordable. When pairing with the MSB Discrete DAC, due to its relatively low analog output gain, I would choose not to activate its volume control. In this case, the volume control of the two amplifiers, A-3 is more superior. (Ken)
紅酒、超跑、名錶，也是這樣，有人覺得沒有意義，更有人認為都是騙人。音響貴平，有人聽不到，可能有人聽得到，有人覺得不值，有人覺得值，世上既然有存在這些東西，賣這些價錢，也能生存到，自有其原因。不必卑視天價產品，也不必卑視廉價產品，百貨百客，買自己相信和喜歡的就好。btw，世上宗教也一直被無神論者挑戰，世間萬物，沒有科學證據不代表不存在，倒轉也是。so take it easy ＆ happy new year（國仁）
