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(More customer reviews)Here's a brief journey to the Idecco:
I purchased a Wadia Itransport in December , I was waffling between buying a fairly high end DAC (Cambridge DacMagic ?) used with my current tube receiver Yamaha R-8 from the mid 80's (85 watts /channel) or an all-in-one Digital amplifier with a high quality built in DAC. I purchased the Onkyo A-5VL digital amp as it seemed like it fell from heaven and was everything I wished for....... WELL, be careful what you wish for ! Initially I thought everything was perfect , but after extended listening my ears actually hurt and developed fatigue and the sound was registering as very shrill and harsh. For short bursts you just think that it's 'bright' and the highs being hidden by the Ipods internal DAC have finally been found.
OK, so I'm mid 40's and have had my ears blasted by concerts, walkman headphone abuse and overall city life destruction, BUT I know what I NEED to hear to be happy and let me say that I found it , the Peachtree Idecco !!!! I was able to demo a model at a high end audio store in town when it first came out (mid Jan. 2010) and was amazed at how much clearer , warmer and musical it sounded. Younger guys may feel that the Onkyo is perfectly fine, but at a thousand bucks for an Idecco Vs. 800-900 for the Wadia/Onkyo set up (or similar solid state digital amp) , it's just a no brainer! An all in one unit that has USB , Optical, Digital Coax, Pre amp out and line out connections!!
The guys at my local audiophile shop in San Francisco said that the Itransport is already obsolete!! It basically became a 400 dollar pass through box for the digital signal, and now other companies are working with Apple to get those rights too, but most are trying to integrate that digital signal into a sound delivery package as well!.Geez, that was fast . From state-of-the-art to gone in 60 days. So, I was able to return the Wadia and Onkyo and upgrade to the Idecco.
"Busy Executive's" review hits all the high notes about specs and so forth. Don't let the 30wpc into 8 ohms fool you. This cranks my 15 x 30 living room and could certainly go more...... no power qualms at all! Just get (or own) efficient speakers.My Ipod actually has 2000 converted Vinyl LP's using a Tascam CD recorder and played through the Idecco the music sounds as close to spinning the records on my Thorens platter as I can possibly hope for.
Bliss, finally.......... the best music station I could hope for , MY OWN . hahaha
Hit shuffle on the Pod and let 20,000 songs play on.... ;-)
Keep rockin' dudes* another big plus of the Idecco , ONE remote that works the Ipod and controls the Amps main functions!!*
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