Hello cparker. I'm not sure if you understood me. After 50-100 hrs of running in the analogue section from new, the sound out of the analogue section has suddenly transformed, form rubbish to very very good indeed. By very good, I mean up there in the £1000+ cd player world. I have £2000 cd player that is better but not by much, and inferior in imaging. I am now very excited about bypassing the output caps, going wired and ding the software mods. I think I'm going to agree with John Swenson after doing so that the internal DAC is very very good indeed.
I'm playing through £5000 of valve pre power into Loather DX2 horns, and separately Sugden A21 (amazing but selling on ebay I'm afraid) into electrostatics. I am amazed at the 3D sound-stage, top drawer imaging, and really spine tingling sound, especially through the electrostatics. The only thing lacking compared to my reference is a full-bodied organic texture to instruments. I would say in this department the internal DAC is at about 70% of my reference. I know that what I'm saying is not what most others are saying about the internal DAC, but it makes me wonder if they'v run in the analogue section. Before i ran it in i was dismayed by its sound quality and preparing myself for a DAC purchase. Now i just want to bypass those caps! -- gilbodavid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gilbodavid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=45159 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87168
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