I will let you know soon, just ordered DNA yesterday. I have had the 944's for over 6 years. Still love them, just wanted to try a different appraoch in a new room.

Still waiting, but they are in assembly.

They are here!!

I have been playing them at a low volume as I read that is important, so I can't compare them with the 944's yet. I can tell even at the low volume though that there is an impressive amount of detail on things like echo and reverb. I pulled them way out in the room for some quiet near field listening. Listened for about 5 hours last night. I can't wait to turn them up!

Sorry for the long delay, been breaking them in and it has been fun, but also got busy with holiday parties and all that. So, Where to begin, these DNA are fun and are still surprising me. I'm not quite ready to fairly compare them fully though. I spent years with the MG944's in several different rooms and tube configurations with many magical moments of whipping my head around because somehow sounds got behind me! 3D!
I moved to California and my room now is not ideal. I'm on the 1/3 end of the long wall in a shoebox shaped room projecting across the short wall. Totally wrong I know but because of the multiple windows and doors this is what it is. I do now have a second "corner" because of where I placed my record shelves. So even though I'm way down the long wall I do have the horn mouths (back of DNA) aimed about the same distance from "corners" with a nice wide spread about 7ft and toed in to cross just in front. Three feet off back wall. My head is about 8 ft away when Im on the couch but the wall is behind my head there so sometimes I sit on the floor to open up some space behind me.  Despite the room issues I had a good solid center image with both speakers. As the DNA's open up I have been having some great imaging moments, and some really rich feel the strings bass!  They weren't ready to do A/B comparisons and I had to put the 944's in the closet because we had a party and I have a wife. I will get them back out with the time off work I have coming up. So everything I can tell you now is comparing from my time with the 944's. Another thing to note is I left the tube configuration in my MK2 with what I had best results for 944's. I'll roll some tubes later in the process.  I currently have Sylvania 0A3's, Philips 5R4GYS, Genalex KT77, and Telefunken E88CC input. Right off the bat I can say the DNA sound seems to fit a touch better in the room as I had to roll back the treble cut with the 944's. In my old ideal basement room I ran it wide open. Back to wide open with the DNA. They don't seem to excite the room nodes as quickly, I think I am listening at a lower volume but feel a little deeper in the music, mostly from the room I think.  Also, I never measured db before, but with all I read about these drivers I downloaded a meter to my phone, don't know if it is super accurate but it will be standard between them when I bring back the 944. I never measured the 944 even once but I have had the volume on the Benchmark DAC2 HGC maxed and Torii MK2 to about 3 oclock if I was really rocking out around the house. Funny thing I discovered tonight, I have the dac at max and the Torii at about only 8 oclock and I'm getting 71dbmax, 60 avg full deep bass, and don't feel like I need or want to turn it up.

I do hear on some recordings an almost hands cupped to mouth sound but not all, adjusting to no tweeter maybe?

So back to the awesome strengths, for bass quality I like to play Quarter Chicken Dark, YoYoMa, Goat Rodeo sessions and Aras with Bela Fleck on it. Great strings, thick rich bass you can feel in your teeth like you are flossing with a bass string. Powerfull and really rich.

For quantity I like to test with Outkast Speakerboxxx track 1 and 2 because it has the whole freq spectrum going on and then goes really deep, can quickly find room problems with it. Gets everything shaking.  

The DNA is so fun to play with that I just type bass into Tidal search and have found some bass head stuff that the DNA is really killing. I gotta remind that I havent played the new bass stuff on the 944 yet. And they are no slouch in the low freq, but the way the DNA throws it seems to "fit" or play nicer with this room.

Thanks,

I would say so far the bass really is as advertised, deep but also very clear, you can really hear each note on the deep stuff.

I still want to try some different tubes and then bring back the 944 to A/B compare some things.

Not sure what I will do, maybe a second system upstairs, maybe even make a Frankenstein surround sound, build a sub and use the DNA as rears with 944 fronts.

Definitely not ready to part with 944's yet. I don't know how big of a room the DNA could fill but they are doing a nice job in this one.