Thanks for your thoughts thinker, anyway I believe that at the moment I'm counting very few people (including you) that have a good opinion regarding the new Sennheiser amp/dac.
I can't understand for which reason I'm not reading many positive reviews about this new product, in contrast of what happened to other previously released products, for example by Schiit (no one knew the Lyr, but it had been a success anyway).
Sennheiser produces great headphones, which I'll buy for sure, and it is a well known and appreciate brand in this forum, so it seems strange to me that a new (and original) product like this happens to be mentioned only in this thread (I mean there are not many threads regarding the HDVD800 other than this).
I was really curious about the performance of this new dac/amp combo, anyway at this point I believe there could be two main reasons for which what I stated above happened:
1) Not many people own the HDVD800 yet.
2) HDVD800 is not good in terms of performance/price ratio.
I hope someone could solve my doubts
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