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Mani, interest in using Pacific as the only all-time on DAC revised my interest in pacific D/A converter section. I consider it as a great 16bit DAC and very good 24Bit DAC. The reason I did not elevate in my appraisal Pacific DAC to great status with high resolution format because Lavry Gold in my observation has “harder” the very lowest end.

A few days back I deseeded to review my outlook about it. The key in this was to be able to connect Pacific to my preamp with identical quality as Lavry Gold has. Lavry used PAD Vintage Dominus cable; among those few who know what it is it will not be more questions. The Pacific needs 2M cable run, and I have no extra 2M Dominus. The way how Lavry is connected I can’t replace the cable. So, It took for me for a while to find for Pacific a 2M cable that more or less would be compatible to Lavry’s Dominus. At last I did and was able to listen the Pacific DAC at 24Bit in more or less as optimum mode as I have Lavry setup.

What can I say” it is not as bad as I remember. Well, it never was “bad” but this time the advantage of Lavry in the very lowest bass is much-much-mach less prominent then I remember I experienced last year. In fact it is a near negligible level and might be observed ONLY during a direct switching. There were some changes in operation of Pacific since last year – any of them might be a reason for the change on sound: Pacific now is powered from PS2000, Model Two vs. Model One, new cable between Pacific and the load.

In concussion it looks like Pacific might be a very good DAC to keep it as the ONLY DAC if the auto-detection of the rate is not a subject. The only mystery that I feel at this point is the HDCD detection. Mani reported that the BSO files he downloaded were HDCD encoded. The Audio Mirror guy suggested that my complain about the BSO files’ screwed imaging shall not be affective if I engage HDCD decoding. So I did but Pacific does not recognize the HDCD code in the BSO files. I played with operation mode and tried the different detection resolution but I see no HDCD code in there. Interesting….

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