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Originally Posted by userlander
 Hey Dave - maybe you should give the DAC-Extasy a nifty little "iPod" name like the uDAC has, or iBasso, etc. -- maybe eDAC, aDAC, or oDAC are available.
 It might drum up sales a little to have a cutesy marketing name like that, as it seems to be what people go for over sound quality.  |
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| Exactly - great description! The singer is "farther away," or more recessed with the uDAC, and there's a slight kind of "echo," or a little bit of a "hollow" sound there as I think I worded it. And not only on female vocals, but I noticed it with male vocals too, most notably with Pearl Jam and XTC. |
It doesn't matter what the "u" stands for for it to be marketing, just like it doesn't matter what the 'i' stands for in iPod (if anything) for that to be marketing. It's the same "cutesy" kind of approach. And besides, people were calling it "you-DAC" long before they realized it was "supposed" to be µ for micro. So yeah, don't you doubt it - it's all marketing. How else do you get people to write 80-pages of hype about something when there are products that even objectively perform better that are hardly discussed at all? You give it a cutesy name. 
. Good to hear, please continue to post your impressions when you get a chance. I'm assuming you're upgrading from the Fiio E1, correct? How does the D4 compare to the Fiio?
