Audio Nemesis DC-1 VLE Limited Edition Italian R2R DAC (used)

Item: Audio Nemesis DC-1 VLE Limited Edition R2R DAC (used)
 
Specifics: Non Over Sampling R2R Ladder or Multibit DAC, VLE is for Very Limited Edition – only 40 were made and this is No. 39. The designer kept No. 40 for his own personal use.

Reason for Sale:

To get a higher end R2R DAC like the TotalDAC or Lampizator which costs a lot more. I've compared tracks on this R2R Multibit DAC with the DSD equivalent on the other DAC I have listed for sale the PS Audio Direct Stream which costs 5 times more and preferred the high res PCM tracks. It's a different sound. Overall, I prefer R2R DAC's to Delta Sigma ones.

I also preferred the DC1 VLE to a Mark Levinson multibit DAC costing 3 times its price that I used to have. It's very musical and competitive with big ticket DAC's for the price.

The midrange and vocals have a magical quality to them. This is a DAC for those partial to a seductive midrange.



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Look at the quality parts




Custom mains filter
Two power transformers – one is R-Core type
Fast-soft recovery Diodes in TO-220 (<25ns)
16 separated power supplies
11 out of 15 power supplies are shunt regulated
Special shunt regulated discrete power supply dedicated to each d/a chip (8 supplies) with an outstanding rejection of -120dB @ 20kHz each
Canare special gold plated 75ohm input RCA connector
Gold plated USB input connector
top quality Scientific Conversion input digital transformer, with only 0,5pF (!)
Asyncronous reclocking circuit
Eight ( 16bit (multibit) d/a chip in parallel
Zero-oversampling
Direct output from dacs without any output stage (zero-feedback...)
Dale 1% resistors
Vishay (naked) very special resistor
AudioNautes special output capacitors
Pure silver special wires (digital and analogue)
HDG (High Density Graphite) to damp vibrations
Professional gold-plated high quality standards PCB
40 individually numbered pcs only
Handmade in Italy
 
Digital Inputs: 75ohm SPDIF, Toslink and USB
Analogue Ouputs: RCA
 
Condition: Mint (with box and manuals), 9/10
 
Price: RM 5,800 (Reduced from RM 7,000)
 
Delivery: COD KL
 
Contact: PM or call 0122010263, Cheah
 
Reviews:

Hi Fidelity

2008 Product Of The Year - DAC

"Still better than original DC-1. And still in good price.
Warm recommendation!!!"

(The above is for the Upgrade Edition which is one model below the Very Limited Edition)

http://www.highfidelity.pl/!ev/artykuly/23_12_2008/nr2008.html
 
Mono and Stereo –“Non oversampling devices offers a certain stressless presentation, that many contemporary DAC's fail to bring. VLE is for sure among few DAC's that revive a close feelings of analog easiness. Music comes in a way, that is much freer of digitits and this shows clearly with the prolonged listening.

"I double checked it against a dCS player with dac... bass was identical. Mid was very similar with more magic from VLE, high could be improvable for VLE, as I already knew. But VLE did cost 1/10... A customer wrote me that VLE was 99% of a 10 times more expensive (Orpheus) dac."

“Emotional, unrestrained, on many occasion feather like presentation. “



“Audio Nemesis will find homes with audiophiles and music lovers, that are searching for that special something. Not special for the name sake, but performance and connection to the music.”
 
http://www.monoandstereo.com/2013/09/audio-nemesis-experience.html
 
AV Mentor –  “Perhaps the most characteristic feature of the DC-1 is a suspect character, something that you feel more and listen less.”

"Bluntly, if you're looking for something special and do not give any importance to features, then the DC-1 VLE  is the device that should get"
 
http://www.avmentor.gr/reviews/group_test_dacs_8.htm

About Hi Fi - "the VLE is characterized by the analogue feeling found on the DC-1 and explores it further in levels of warmth and detail"

“The VLE is an extraordinary converter in character and realisation.”

“the only real issue here is the very limited numbers produced by the manufacturer which will turn the VLE into a collectors item, very , very soon”
 

http://web.archive.org/web/20110119195235/http://www.abouthifi.com/review.php?s=sGQ#top

User Reviews

"I can say it's the most analogue DAC I have listened. But not in sense of rolloff of high freq. No. Instead all instruments sounds togheter with a great detail and tone. Bold sound, very visceral and analogue. I love that sound. The final result is a win for analogue lovers.

In my experience NOS + multibit DAC chips are the most enjoyable on a long run. With a proper implementation they can reveals all sound details in a very natural way. The DC1 VLE is based on an asynchronous free running clock, which in theory adds jitter. After the digital receiver, it just "resamples" all the lines from the receiver  to the DAC with a high frequency, very stable and low jitter clock, at 50 or 100MHz. Jitter or not, I can say the result is stunning.

But DC1 VLE it's not in production anymore. The standard version is not at the same quality level."

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