Dougster
Well-known member
Just installed first Moon 750D available in Uk. This is designed as a DAC and CD player (not SACD), aiming to make the best of all available digital files and streaming. Sampling at up to 192kHz and working at 32 bits it is one serious piece of machinery. It will in the future have an external power supply option.
Considering an upgrade from their previously second top model -the well respected Super Nova - I was intrigued to see whether the new player could wring more from red book CD and whether this was marginal or not. Initial shop audition via Focal speakers (£18,000 !!) suggested home trial would be worthwhile.
At home the results, and this from a unit that has done only a tiny amount of Moon's recommmended 400 hours run in (!!), are quite superb. The overriding impression is of utterly beguiling naturalness, and a quite phenomenal level of detail that is not "hi fi only detail" (if you know what I mean), but instead an expansion of the music in communicativeness with a clear sense of the purpose, virtuousity and collective endeavour of the muscians involved. Quite entrancing.
It's perfomance with digital files from BBC satellite radio recorded on my Humax Hard Disk is similarly impressive, and the BBC iPlayer streamed music is presented with unexpected dynamics detail and realism recalling CD performance. As such a vast range of free high quality music becomes available.
Of interest to fellow Spire Owners is the revelation in bass performance showing the Spires capable of awesome dynamics, and bass harmony and texture, in the context of a gloriously natural, rhythmically fascinating presentation. I would not have believed the Moonproduct could achieve all this until I heard it!
(The website http://simaudio.com provides the technical detail of efforts to ensure minimum distortion, jitter and filter contaminants, and also virtual elimination of jitter.
Considering an upgrade from their previously second top model -the well respected Super Nova - I was intrigued to see whether the new player could wring more from red book CD and whether this was marginal or not. Initial shop audition via Focal speakers (£18,000 !!) suggested home trial would be worthwhile.
At home the results, and this from a unit that has done only a tiny amount of Moon's recommmended 400 hours run in (!!), are quite superb. The overriding impression is of utterly beguiling naturalness, and a quite phenomenal level of detail that is not "hi fi only detail" (if you know what I mean), but instead an expansion of the music in communicativeness with a clear sense of the purpose, virtuousity and collective endeavour of the muscians involved. Quite entrancing.
It's perfomance with digital files from BBC satellite radio recorded on my Humax Hard Disk is similarly impressive, and the BBC iPlayer streamed music is presented with unexpected dynamics detail and realism recalling CD performance. As such a vast range of free high quality music becomes available.
Of interest to fellow Spire Owners is the revelation in bass performance showing the Spires capable of awesome dynamics, and bass harmony and texture, in the context of a gloriously natural, rhythmically fascinating presentation. I would not have believed the Moonproduct could achieve all this until I heard it!
(The website http://simaudio.com provides the technical detail of efforts to ensure minimum distortion, jitter and filter contaminants, and also virtual elimination of jitter.
