Day 3 of listening to it, and I'm still impressed by it. Actually, more like blown away by it. One of the most natural sounding DACs I've heard at any price. This employs the new AKM 4497 chip if that matters to anybody here. Subjective word is that it sounds more natural than the ubiquitous ESS SABRE, though as always I'm sure much of that would have to do with implementation. I have an ESS SABRE based DAC in the BMC PureDAC and always found it to have a bit of an electronic sheen over everything. This has none of that. Very natural, analog, non-electronic sound. I've heard much more expensive DACs that I've liked a lot less.
It arrived in a nice well padded box. It's a little worse for wear on the outside but it did its job, and protected it on its trip around the globe.
Inside the box, it's nicely laid out. The DAC was smaller than I expected, going by the photos I saw.
I grabbed the first thing in reach that would show some context for size. That happened to be one of my wife's size 7 1/2 ladies shoes.
It arrived in a nice well padded box. It's a little worse for wear on the outside but it did its job, and protected it on its trip around the globe.
Inside the box, it's nicely laid out. The DAC was smaller than I expected, going by the photos I saw.
I grabbed the first thing in reach that would show some context for size. That happened to be one of my wife's size 7 1/2 ladies shoes.
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