Quick up date on my PA10.
It pairs very well with various dongles and BT dacs.
Pairs less well with Chord Mojo 2 and Chord TT2.
With the Chord pairing it loses some of the Chordness .
Mojo 2 I find the sharpness and air lacking.
Sense of depth is diminished.
TT2 connected balanced is just a no.
I don’t think it was designed for a desktop replacement more for taking the heavy lifting from dongles and weaker powered daps.
It does this perfectly.
I find it definitely better fed a balanced signal than S/E.
One unexpected match up was the Schiit Mani phono stage.
A great pairing of a cheap phono stage and a transportable amp.
Headphone pairing I found a preference for the Astell & Kern T5p 2nd generation.
A bass heavy light weight phone that’s very easy to drive.
Again balanced was my personal choice.
It’s still very early days as I don’t have many hours on the unit so take the above with a pinch of salt.
Still in love with the volume control
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I wonder if this is the start of an amp or dac/ amp line from AK ?
Imagine a dac/amp with swappable dacs and Nu tubes ?
Don’t think this will happen as it would dent there dap sales.
still enjoying it