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I hear similar things that some of you wrote here.
1) avocet rounds a tiny bit the input signal from the analog ins and gives it's own sound to these sources... just a tiny bit, but it still counts.
2) lavry - naked to the monitors sounds more direct (again splitting the hairs)
In my view it is a matter of taste. The level is the same to me. Avocet is a bit softer sounding and more pleasant. I don't think those differencies could have any significant influence on my results.
However I was very surprised with one thing. One day a one guy came here with his prototype of (very non-compromise) DAC. We tried it connected through avocet (together with lavry blue and minidac) and the results were blue-lavry-prototype were one level and minidac couldn't deliver what the others did.
But then we connected the prototype directly to the speakers and the sound was completely different. Maybe it was the impedance (but he told me there couldn't be any issue with impedance), but the result was very interesting. The soundstage was much better defined, all the range was much more alive. I quite liked it... but there was one major flaw. It sounded really harsh this way. So maybe we all vere fooled by this frequency tilt caused by some impedance related effect. But what was sure after that, avocet and it's buffer amps are not transparent.
But then... avocet stayed and I'm very happy with it.
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