Posts by project86

Quote: Originally Posted by lithium1085  The price of the base model essence one often drops below 550$ and that makes it very close to this one at 400$. It does have the advantage of being balanced but is that really...

Quote:Originally Posted by lithium1085 Hi John, This sounds really interesting. Do you have a Xonar essence one base model for comparison? Thanks  No, I don't, sorry. I'm wondering the same thing though - will this STU, maybe will...

Quote: Originally Posted by Sanlitun  Mine arrived here today, been warming it up for a few hours and getting the courage up to have a listen.   DO IT!!!!! You've got a nice system there, it should sound...

Quote:Originally Posted by wuwhere Sounds like for $600 less it makes the D18 a really good value. The D18 certainly is a really good value, no matter what the consensus ends up being about the new DA8. It could be the best DAC in...

Quote: Originally Posted by Theogenes  Very much looking forward to your thoughts, MrCasey and Project86!!    As an aside to Mr. Grandberg-- any chance you'll be auditioning the Lynx Hilo at some...

Further impressions after having listened to the STU a bit more:   *I love having separate controls for headphone out and line out. I'm using it at my desktop with some active speakers (Serene Audio Talisman) and it's great to...

Got some time in today with the DA-8 - pretty impressive so far. A few observations:   *The headphone jack is a tight fit. Not terribly tight, but tighter than average. They even mention this in the manual, and say to make...

Alright, this thread is officially back in action! alv4410 and HideousPride both have Silver Poison cables headed their way. Here's a bit of copy and paste from my post in the big Toxic Cables thread, just so you can see the new cables...

Quote: Originally Posted by Currawong  The Master 7 is different (including from the Reference 7). It manages to be both spacious, delicate and musical and impactful at the same time. The Anedio reminds me, of all things,...

remilio - yes, I still find the D2 to be a better DAC, for my tastes anyway. Tobby and X-Sabre are not that far behind though, which is rather impressive.