LAiV HARMONY vs T+A DAC 200 - Feedback After 2 Months Of Use

LAiV HARMONY vs T+A DAC 200 - Feedback After 2 Months Of Use

I have now spent over 2 months with both T+A DAC 200 and LAiV Harmony and I enjoy bot of them very much. I bought the T+A DAC 200 about 2 weeks before receiving the LAiV Harmony so I now spent very similar time with both DACs. Let me tell you listening to both of them is truly amazing. Both are way out of their league and can play the music in a very engaging immersive way. Both have some very strong sides and well are keepers. Which one is for you that only depends on your sound signature expectations.

Both DACS were feed the DSD 512 format via USB. Even though the LAiV does not have dedicated DSD DAC and internally resample the sound to PCM for some reason the DSD richess and magic is still audible in the sound character and I prefer it over the PCM 705.6

SYSTEM IN THE VIDEO:

SPEAKERS: QUALIO IQ - https://www.qualioaudio.com
AMP: NORMA AUDIO REVO IPA 140 - https://normaudio.com/en/
STREAMER: PC with HQ PLAYER for Upsampling to DSD512 on the fly Using Tidal and Roon
DAC: LAiV HARMONY & T+A DAC 200
CABLES: Audiomica Excellence USB, VirtualHiFi interconnects and speaker cables
FOOTERS: VirtualHiFi Vibron



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