It is tonally rich and does a wonderful job reproducing the sound I hear in a live performance. The Hex sounds absolutely beautiful in my system. I stated with the Octave, then the Hex, and now of course the Onyx. I’ve been on the Metrum track for many years now. I have both the highly acclaimed benchmark DAC 2 HGC Saber ESS based DAC and the DAC Built into the Bryston Pre. To me it sounds bright, lean, scratchy, kind if like nails on a chalk board.
One point of interest is the a normal delta sigma DAC sounds like absolute crap though this system. With that in mind I have ended up with a Bryston B17 cubed amp, a Bryston 4B cubed Amp, paired with Revel F208 speakers. The DAC is the only component that has the possibility of reproducing the richness Norah Jones voice while maintaining the bite and attach needed to reproduce a snare drum or piano. In my mind, adding color anywhere in the upstream components was painting everything with the same brush. My philosophy was that all the tonal richness should come from the source (in this case original recording and DAC) alone. I searched for an amp and speakers that where ultra transparent, highly resolving, and added no color or warmth of their own. In building a system, I have tried to choose components that I felt would serve my goals of musical truth the best. The question for me has been how close can I get to the truth.to the original sound in all its glory? I’m not interested in ‘High Fi’ sound or Hearing ‘Air’ or other deviations from the original sound. It was impressed upon me that what we hear through our electronics, no matter how good it is, is only an approximation of the original sound. There was a timber in the sound I had never heard from any recording before or since. Before I jump into the review I’m going to build some context about whet I value in a stereo system and my journey to achieve that.Ī few years ago I was standing beside my teacher playing a 9 foot Steinway Grand Piano. I questioned if I had just made a big mistake?!!! Those where my first thoughts.and they have changed dramatically in the days and weeks since then. When I first plugged my new Metrum Onyx DAC into my existing system, my first thought was ‘it sounds like I have a tube amp!!!’.
I just got my New Metrum Onyx about three weeks ago.
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