The Ferrum WANDLA DAC, which appeared this year, was created with the option to implement a variety of filters, including user created ones, so that looks like a candidate for this idea.

Not yet, but I will try. Since it happens so consistently at the timestamps I mentioned, I do suspect that it’s just buggy behavior, and not a mere streaming issue. It’s also only the sound that interrupts, while the track actually keeps playing, which you wouldn’t expect to happen with a...

Yes, it’s regularly happening after either 17 seconds or 2 minutes and 17 seconds into tracks. If I click on the slider a few seconds before it, it will happily continue playing with sound again. Vey strange.

And another new, and glowing, review on Headfonia.

Yes, he did address it, but as usual with him, things tend to get lost in the overly abundant sauce. 😝 What he ignored in his review is that there are quite obvious differences between the four settings high/low gain, and NOS/OS. I commented on his review that high gain NOS has the same sound...

And here’s another full, and this time gushing (except for the wiggly volume knob), review of the EF600. Occasional F-bomb warning for those who are sensitive to it. 😉

Anyone in the Netherlands have a Chimera with 3.5 mm connectors? Considering this one, but before taking the rather considerable plunge I’d first like to audition it :), preferably as close to home as possible.

Mine doesn’t come back. It just has this mildly annoying 5 degree wiggle room.

Joshua Valour has now posted this full review on his YouTube channel. A lot is covered in what I feel is too short a time. My feeling is that this reflects how he feels about the product. I‘m getting a bit of a ‘HiFiMan, you can do better than this, NEXT!’ vibe here.

No new assessment on technicalities for the moment, but just reporting that I had a near out-of-body experience with my Susvara and Lavri Grand listening to Pink Floyd’s Animals (2018 remix). Never experienced it like this before! :o2smile:

I’ll keep that in mind. :relaxed: I‘m noticing my assessments are still shifting, though, so I’m going to wait before pulling the trigger.

I was holding off writing a review of my own, pretty much in part because I’m lazy :smile:, but your review makes writing one of my own redundant, since yours matches my observations perfectly, at least to the point where it was possible for me, since I don’t have the highest end setup. The...

The Susvara subtly, but significantly, changes with each different cable you connect to it. It’s really a matter of synergy, and personal taste, which one(s) work best with the other gear you have. Trial and error is really the only way of finding out.

I just discovered an issue with my EF600 unit. I always found the 4-pin XLR output extremely tight, making me have to push some cables disconcertingly hard to get them in, and wiggle endlessly to get them out, but now I discovered this means some cables don’t make sufficient contact because of...

Yes, I have the same, and it’s more than 2-3 degrees. Annoying, but I can live with it.

Well, mine arrived this morning, just one day after it left Latvia! I’ll just leave a short first impression after a tiring day at work. First of all, this cable absolutely destroys the myth that silver equals bright or analytical. To me it sounds just about dead neutral, in a very good way...

@devilboy You’re making me very curious about this cable now. Mine is nearing the end of its 150-hour um… ‘tenderization’ treatment at @lavricables , so I hope to see mine arrive towards the end of this coming week. 😛

Good! And I also realized yours are transparent, while I ordered baltic grey, so at least two differences. :smile:

I got the one with the transparent heat shrink, which was in fact the only option available when switching from 4 to 8 on the product page (!) It really looks like we got ourselves the exact same cable, connectors and all. Please don’t tell me yours is 1.8m in length, too. 😂

Your pics are just fine. Show some more. :stuck_out_tongue: The 8 core is quite a bundle, though! Is it still flexible, and not too heavy?

Yeah, whaddaya know. :smile:

So did I! Thought it had a bit of a peak in the upper mids (or lower highs?), but otherwise a good cable.

Just ordered this one today, too!

Isn’t NOS the default state of R2R DACs? In that case no button would be needed. :relaxed: I believe the OS setting on the EF600 is just an added feature.

If you’re getting mono sound from the 4-pin XLR output of the EF600, there is either something wring with your unit, and/or with the connector you’re plugging into it, so I’d have that checked first if I were you.