Majestic DAC impressions

Why separate your best equipment? Keep it all together.

I had hoped to have put in a lot more listening by now , but most of my time has been given over to preparing to fight a planning application for 50 odd hoses in the field behind my house.
My impressions to date are quite similar to Bobs latest ones. Listening to the Majestic so far has been limited to coax feeds from the Sky HD box and some streamed radio from my Denon Network Audio Player. The first thing I noticed was, err well, nothing. Such a natural sound, no emphasis anywhere in the spectrum, just clear vocals, quite deep bass (bearing in mind the source) and a well presented stereo stage. No excesses, nothing missing, just a clean smooth sound. Even SWMBO commented that it was "very nice to listen to" an accolade indeed!! She is very sensitive to the upper end harshness that often comes from broadcasts and noticed the absence this.
Once the planning meeting on Wednesday evening is over I can get back to some serious listening and report further. Meanwhile, first impressions are Excellent, which is good, as you only get one chance at those.

Thanks for the wordsof support. What's a u between friends? Stressful is feeling like something of an understatement just now, no wnoder I'm mssipllenig!
When its all over I might write a few words on the uses and abuses of planning policies and the NPPF as well as the merits of the Majestic.

Have fun with that Ash, but if you can lay your hands on one, the PS1 sounds better than the PS2 and by quite a large margin IMO...no idea why though You have to use the audio output, maybe that's why?

Edited by Suggs - 28 Feb 2014 at 7:12am