And size of the thing is another issue for me as you mention, personally I much prefer a full width 430-440mm amplifier visually, It's quite frustrating for me that most headphone amps and DAC's are 'half width' or something else other than 'full width' because my whole AV rig is built into an antique sideboard!
I realise that there is no point making something bigger than it needs to be for cost reasons but it does bug me that my Dacmagic doesn't match anything else on the shelves and yet they supply it with a whacking great ugly external PSU!
Why not charge an extra £100, make it full size so it matches everything else and put the damn power supply inside?
when I finally upgrade my DAC I will choose between Naim DAC, Bryston BDA-1 or if I can't stretch to these an Audiolab CD800 for this very reason, they are the only DAC's that I can find that are suitable and full width, weird.
Except for Cyrus stuff virtually everything else on the market is full width.
So, all that said, the Marantz being full width is great for me although I do realise that for those with limited desk space it would be way to big, it's a bit of a monster.
Good to know I'm not going mad and that someone else finds their Marantz a match for dedicated head amps!
most guys want small headphone amps to put on their desk next to their computer
I know that's what I want
a full width headphone amp case would be mostly empty space anyway
