Day 0: Delivery
https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/my-dedicated-audio-room-build-quaddiffusers-big-dig.36359/post-1136996
Day 1: breaking them in!
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Looks great!. The red diffuser is stunning!
Dan
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Looks amazing! Is that a pair of Mola Mola Ossetra monoblock? How do you like it?
I spent some time at a friends listing to the new Mola Mola Ossetra and some big Tidals, sounded brilliant amps are quite good.
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What Aurender is that in the background?
Should be N30.
The Mola Mola Ossetra monoblocks (on loan from a friend) are exceptionally capable, with state-of-the-art invariance, linearity, neutrality, power and transparency. They are my current benchmarks for auditions and comparisons with “super” monoblock amps.
The Aurender N30 server/streamer (mine) will also be used for comparisons with multiple “super” streamer/servers.
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Good Morning, any chance you are going to compare to an N50? the Rendered sounds great but Qobuz connect lacks some features I like in Tidal or the Qobuz application so I am still contemplating a transport/streamer.
Curious on the Mola Mola to M500 as well
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Wooooooo! Looking forward to your first impressions John!
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Daniel, Jonathan, and Dustin,
As a Partner (Patron) in Crime fortunate to experience this rarefied stratosphere of High End Audio with the Sentinel DAC, I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to MSB Technology for bringing me along on this extraordinary journey. I couldn’t be here without you guys and the incredible team at MSB!
I’ll be sharing my thoughts and observations soon, as the Sentinel DAC goes through its break-in process. I’d like to take time to reflect more deeply on how best to present my thoughts in a coherent and organized way, as there are simply too many exciting topics to explore and discuss!
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@QuadDiffuser I know you are likely swamped but please share, I know I am and I suspect we are collectively living vicariously through everyone who has a Sentinel and we want to know everything
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Hahahaha, we are all on pins and needles.
@Daniel_Francis We are all on pins and needles for the new firmware. tick tock tick tock tick tock. 
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Fair play 
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Actually I have a different question, given that the firmware update elevates the Cascade how much better is the Sentinel after the update. Basically is this a WOW vs OMG or a Holly Batman vs I’m in heaven moment, and again we need people who have experienced both (ie calling out @Dan or @Daniel_Francis to enlighten us)
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Beautiful set up. In a separate thread dedicated to the Seismion Reactio 2 pictured in your room, I would love to hear your thoughts on those. But not here to risk a diversion from the more interesting listening impressions of the Sentinel.
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Here’s the WBF thread on the Seismion units, where I’ve left several comments: https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/seismion-new-active-isolation-platform-from-germany.35455/page-22#post-1041801
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The uniquely optimized acoustics of my listening room, supports the highest resolving power and jitter-extinguishing precision cadence of the Sentinel DAC to recreate a dense, highly articulated, appropriately positioned/sized, and totally credible 3D soundstage that is filled with living and breathing musicians (and their instruments) located beyond not just the sidewalls, but deeply inside/past the front wall.
The soundstage and the rendering of the acoustic space is realistically balanced, with the X, Y, and Z axis perfectly “squared”, rendering acoustic events in their proper proportions (including relative distances and sizes):
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Nonpareil!
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