Well folks, my DAC-60 arrived today. It was shipped by air courier directly from Hong Kong.
I unpacked it and it's indeed one quality unit. Super thick brushed aluminum faceplate. Thicker than my ARC PH3's!! High quality glass epoxy PCB. Extruded aluminum heatsinks for all regulators. Parts quality is extremely good. It came with EH 6922 tubes. I plan to change them to Bugle Boys later. First I want to see how it sounds with the stock tubes. I placed some white Scotch adhesive putty (same as blu-tack) on top of the quartz crystal (hurts nothing to try and it's cheap!). I also added a couple of damping rings to the tubes (from my PH3 preamp). I didn't have any quality 75 ohm digital cable on had so I bought a nice Sonic Euphoria cable from the folks at Jeff's Sound Values here in San Diego. 65 bucks for a .6 m length. Looks like a million bucks. Massive cable. So heavy it tilted the Squeezebox to one side! I had to put some Scotch adhesive feet to support it. I fired the unit up and it immediately locked to the SB3's digital signal. First impressions are quite promising. Sound is much smoother than the SB3's internal DAC and analog buffer. Midrange character is also more laid back, less forward so to speak. I'll let it "cook" for a while before critical listening... Here are some shots I took of the DAC-60, SB3 and my system. picture 1: +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: lite1.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=907| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- crooner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ crooner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3379 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20789 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
