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I'm wondering too. I may end up getting one to compare with my UD 10.1 but haven't yet. To be honest its kind of a pain to have to disconnect the battery pack and connect it to the charger, then disconnect it again to reconnect to the UD 10.1 so thats why I'm considering getting the Thingee
I now have a Thingee incoming...........
What I would like to know regarding the UD10 is whether the battery pack is necessary for a better sound if it is only used to convert USB to coax?
well I liked it better than the Hag only when using the battery pack, without it they sounded pretty much the same. I was using coax for awhile with the UD10 because my 840C didn't have AES digital input. That was SQ wise though, the UD10 wins just because it has every single connection on it while the Hag you had to choose either AES or SPDIF
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well I liked it better than the Hag only when using the battery pack, without it they sounded pretty much the same. I was using coax for awhile with the UD10 because my 840C didn't have AES digital input. That was SQ wise though, the UD10 wins just because it has every single connection on it while the Hag you had to choose either AES or SPDIF
It'll be interesting to see how the Thingee performs, straight out of my laptop and from a powered hub....
Not to pee on the cornflakes but did anyone notice that Blue Circle is a big advertiser on GoodSound? I would be real skeptical that there would be THAT much difference in SQ when going thru the Thingee to an outboard dac compared to the same signal going thru the Hagtech to the same outbaord dac unless BC has really discovered a way to dejitter or do some other magic to the bitstream. What do they have against Hammond cases? Maybe it's the spooge that makes it sound better.
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Glad to hear it USG! So what's the out of box verdict?
Hi Skeptic
My first impression is: Looks bad, sounds good !
It doesn't' bring my laptop kit up to Stello-GS-1 level but it sure gets everything out of the Constantine that the Constantine has to give..... and that's saying a lot.
I'll be able to talk about it more after I've listened to it for a while.
I have it hooked up with a short Dayton optical cable that I had laying around and slapped some electrical tape over the ridiculously bright red LED. (amped with an M^3into '03 880s)
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