Furutech Alpha Design Labs Cruise & Stride DAC & Headphone Amplifier - Page 2

I saw one in Tokyo, and it has piqued my curiosity. Moon Audio looks to be selling them. I'm surprised this hasn't garnered more interest, but then, most people associate Furutech with plugs and cables.

i do think the form factor will be limiting its appeal

It looks perfectly transportable.  Most people don't put a DAP-DAC-Amp stack in their pocket anyway, the most I can cram in my pocket is a slim amp like a D-zero and my iPhone.  So if it's going in a bag anyway, its funky shape doesn't matter.  That sort of carbon fiber does scratch pretty easily, you'd want to show it a lot of love.  I have a carbon fiber iphone case and it looks like hell right now.  But hopefully they've already thought of that.

true, but most people DO stack them together even if its in a manbag, or use a coat jacket weather permitting. i see this as being problematic on both counts. i haven't been all that impressed with the finishing on the high end connectors (notably the top line  XLR panel mounts), printing lopsided or off centre  etc. not what you pay for, so i would hope its not just blingy; agreed on the CF unless it has some sort of gelcoat it looks like crap in no time.

 My uha-4/iphone is the same thickness as my zune 30gb. With my ipod 7g, it's just slightly thicker and easily fits in my pocket and is just as portable as any standalone dap. And there are a few amps that are just as thin as the leckerton and some are even thinner. And even when I had bigger amps that wouldn't fit in my pocket, I still had them strapped together. There are some who strap a clas, alo, and ipod in one mega stack. Having them on top of each other makes them much easier to "transport".

It looked great but HRT had some crap headphones at their booth.  I wish I had borrowed some Grados from TTVJ and listened then.
 

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Originally Posted by cifani090 

How did you guys like it at RMAF?

I got the chance to play around with the Furutech ADL Cruise today at Addicted to Audio in Melbourne,

easily the cleanest sounding (finally no added line noise!) portable amp I've heard through my modest setup

consisting of a humble iShuffle and SR80i's.

Playing some *,WAV Beastie Boy instrumental files came across as really exceptional in terms of clarity, we also tried to

see if it would power a HD650 for a laugh ~ ummmm, no. No it won't. 

It's reasonably solid ~ carbon fibre and steel construction ~ weight feels like about 175-200grams off hand.

I reviewed it here.