I recently went ahead about bought two units from
wsz0304 off eBay, one for me and another for a friend to drive a JVC HP M1000. As you can see, he has 100% and no neutrals, which is pretty darn good. Alas, my experience with him hasn't been good as of late.
First of all I was messaged on the 19th of August that he had shipped them out (I've left the tracking number there for you guys to look up if you like):
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Dear decayedcell,
Dear Sir, Thanks for you order my product, i have send this item to you by EMS,tracking number is EB099985572CN,please kindly check it after 3 days through
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Thanks and best regard.
wang shuzeng
- wsz0304
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As you can see, it was actually shipped out on the 23rd. Its not really the fact that it was shipped 5 days later that annoys me, telling me when it was actually shipped out would have been better.
Secondly, I thought I was quoted for DHL shipping, not EMS.
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Dear decayedcell,
Dear Sir, Thanks for your message, If you need two units, shipping charge is USD70.00 by DHL express to you,please you are know.
Thanks and best regard.
wang shuzeng
- wsz0304
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Then again, in part it was my fault for ordering two SVDAC06 instead of SVDAC05 - to his credit, he left me pay the difference between the two. Furthermore, this was in reply to a question I asked about the Zero DAC that I had originally intended to buy.
The above two aren't really of concern, sure, it might have arrived late and not by DHL, but the packaging was atrocious - there wasn't even a proper EMS mailing box. Apart from the bubble wrap around this very flimsy box there was a black garbage bag like cover over it. Having paid a good 265 USD odd I for one thought it would have have been half decent to at least send a box (all photos taken with my K800i, so they're not the best).
Okay, over to unit 1:
Great I'm going to get some quality audio out of those jacks.
Looks like a normal power button. It also happens to be stuck in the on position.
Apart from that, it does actually work, and theres something loose inside (I can hear it when I pick it up >.>)
Unit 2:
Cosmetic damage. I don't see how that could have occurred given it was in a box, and sitting in some foam type sheet, AND also in a plastic bag.
No issues with the power button, but the volume up/down and option button is warped way out. Hence, when I turn the unit on I can't actually use it because the volume button is permanently on
Anyway I've contacted the seller now for a refund (some of this should be repairable). I'm not really interested in getting sent out another two units which might end up like this.
You've probably been wondering how it sounds by now though haha - I can't actually get KS over USB working into the DAC in foobar, however it does work in 24 Bit mode over DS @ 44.1Khz. To get digital in I need to head off to buy toslink cable to get sweet sweet bit perfect out of my AV-710. The only thing I'm not peeved off about is that the sound of it is begrudgingly good >.>.
Straight out of the box, I find it to be on the bright side, there is increased separation, longer decay on cymbal crashes etc, and a bit more soundstage but it is a bit lacking in terms of bass (I find the FiiO to actually provide more bass in this regard).
My SVDAC05s arrived today damaged...
