I partly agree On the other hand Ibasso for me is also brining out TOTL tech for affordable money talking about DC Elite, D16 and PB5. I am personally not expecting DX180 to rival these but being a decent performer plus a lightweight digital transport into D16

Won't work You can connect your Kann Ultra only via USB to D16 and use D16 DAC-AMP There's no analogue amplification option in D16. You can check out PB5 for such a scenario

Excellent review indeed, Thx for mentioning, just linking it here https://www.headfonia.com/ibasso-d16-review

Don't know if that is making sense as A100T is a pure Amp and D16 is a DAC-AMP or do you mean if someone's has connected A100T to D16?

Anyone tried Oor with Charybdis?

DC07 Pro I suppose so no ROHM DAC based sized down DX320 Max like DC Elite but an iteration of DC06 Pro maybe. Am just guessing

Or remote control app like Eversolo so you can use your mobile phone as control 😉 To keep expectations fair, Roon ready capability would be a big step in that direction

It's just coming out on Chinese market and I personally assume DC Elite will still be superior in SQ though DX180 will have more driving power as I read in the DX180 thread

Alex, pls also test DX180 into D16 at some point. Lurking for that new iteration for some time now. With updated CPU and memory it should finally make a convenient small footprint source for dongles and DACs

This hobby is a rabbit hole and I fully understand the high standards developing for different sectors of hobbies. I can hardly stand listening to my wife playing music out of her mobile phone loudspeaker for example 😉 Once I ve been gaming years ago with my PS3/PS4 I was running these through...

If you want to use the N30LE DAC you will need a digital input signal. Afaik N30LE only supports USB as hardwired digital input though it can use different other options like SPDIF over Coax adapter or I2S over mini HDMI as output. The adapter you referenced can extract an optical audio signal...

I have been thinking about that HDMI topic too. The problem is about the supported standard protocols and the involved Latency. There are hardly any DAPs supporting UAC1 so N30LE isn't exotic in these regards. N30LE features a mini HDMI port but that one is supposed to be used only for I2S...

Sorry, wrong thread

Are you sure it's not Roon ready? My A6 Master is...

Ah, so you didn't mean it as challenging in terms of harshness etc but emotionally? Just asking as I am eying Perpetua too currently