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The main text of each review is based
on the comments made in the discussion
CROSSTALK
following each session.
If you’re thinking of upgrading your But What’s at the more, end, each for some, reviewer one look and
DAC, why not upgrade your preamp as well? participates your spouse-life-partner-mother-of-your
in the Crosstalk,
Yes, I know, looking for a new preamp may a personal children-and-self-appointed-all-around-
comment on the product.
not be as sexy as exploring the onslaught We may audiomania-critic even disagree will among be charmed ourselves. too.
of new technologies which are shattering And you know what? —Albert Simon
established ideas about sources, but a good Readers tell us they love
preamp remains a must.
Even to see with us the disagree. least-favorite optical cable,
After listening to the Eximus DP1 I can Because the Eximus if we, DP1 the provided “experts” lots can of detail and
now say that you don’t have to choose. This space. disagree, The birdlike so can flutes they. in the Britten
unit is a wonderful combination of both and, They piece tell were us absolutely our disagreements, charming, on a clean
after its performance here, I bet it’ll also give mostly background. minor but Connected sometimes via its major, USB input, it
a new life to your LPs — yes, they’re hot painted empower the orchestra them. in the Rachmaninoff
and getting hotter. No, it didn’t match our That’s piece just in one fine way strokes UHF of Magazine relief and clearly
reference system, but that is not much of is a different separated from the all snare other drum magazines.
and the triangle.
surprise. What was surprising was how close I thought there was a little more detail
it came to it and, in one case, very close. in the low bass with the Stello interface, but
If you’re starting out, you’ll have a solid there was not really a lot to choose from
base with tons of potential for growth, on the two USB connections. Compared with
which to build the rest of your system. And the reference Moon DAC via the Stello U3,
if you’re a heard-it-all audiophile, let this unit the reference provided new insight into the
into your life, and let your ears be charmed. sounds, how a piano note is taken up and
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prolonged by the double basses. In comparison
the DP1 was just a bit less lively, Margie
Gibson a bit breathier-sounding, and that,
from the final test, appeared to be because
we had to listen to the Eximus’ DAC through
its preamp section.
Whew! That was a lot of A-B comparing.
The DP1 is a very good converter, and if it’s
not fair to put it up against a preamp that
costs like the reference, it gave us no choice,
and it performed very well even so.
—Toby Earp
This unit is so beautiful you just want
it to sound the way it looks, which is to say
better than anything else. That would be an
impossible mission, but it is good enough to
be the heart of a terrific modern computerbased
music system. Forget the low cost,
which is a mere bonus.
—Gerard Rejskind