[xuan87]

Mine will get delivered on 6,  3 more days. I am so excited. Well i wanted DAC ouput too, but i didn't saw any feature for that on JDs website, i only could choose what type of plug do i need for power . Well i allready have a soundcard for desktop , so is not that a big deal. Thanks for review Llloyd

You can request for a DAC output of you want, through the RAC ports.

 

[White Lotus]

  Just pre-ordered mine. Hoping it does well with my LCD-X's.

 
I'm also keen to know how it handles planars (Audeze specifically) 

 

[david408]

Llloyd, thanks for your initial impressions!
 
Would love to see a review of The Element vs the O2+ODAC REV B.

 

[Mihaidmg]

You can request for a DAC output of you want, through the RAC ports.

Already received mine , it was too late when i saw that you can do that, can we change it by ourselves? I heard something that is a jumper on the board and we can do it ourselves?

 

[Schopenhauer]

Anyone willing to post a picture of the knob's glow? 

 

[Llloyd]

  Anyone willing to post a picture of the knob's glow? 

 
edit:
Disregard original post.  Here.
 

 

[Schopenhauer]

 

  Anyone willing to post a picture of the knob's glow? 

 
I tried. My phone's camera is not really good enough to capture it but this'll give you an idea with how dark I had to make the room to get a reasonable photo.  The knob is offset from the body with a white LED inside the chassis that provides a backlit glow.  I wasn't able to get a capture of the LED in normal lighting because it's not that obvious.  Additionally the light is not visible while looking straight down at the knob which I don't think many people will be doing.
 
 

Spoiler: bad pic

It conveys the idea nonetheless. Thanks! I like that JDS went with white light. Seems to go well with the black chassis. 

 

[Llloyd]

The light is nice and it's a great looking piece of work.
 
Additionally I never heard the O2 and I know the element uses the odac.  This explans the clean, linear sound that those big fans of the O2 are always talking about.
 
At first I was unable to get it to work with my Galaxy S5 through USB OTG to the power needs of the odac.  For those that might have this issue I solved the problem by using a powered usb hub as a medium.

 

[compddd]

You can request for a DAC output of you want, through the RAC ports.

 
Forgive my ignorance, I'm new to the Hi-Fi world. Why would someone want a DAC output?

 

[dullknives]

   
Forgive my ignorance, I'm new to the Hi-Fi world. Why would someone want a DAC output?

so they can use the DAC from the element and send that signal to a separate amplifier or powered speakers.

 

[Llloyd]

Seems a little strange to get a product like this just to line it through the odac which is seperately available? I guess if you are using it on the go but have a better amp at home.

 

[Mistershifter]

 

 

 


Thank you mail man!

 

[saxon48]

 
 

 

 


Thank you mail man!

Looks great! Nice and simple packaging.

 

[wim1983]

  Seems a little strange to get a product like this just to line it through the odac which is seperately available? I guess if you are using it on the go but have a better amp at home.

Not strange at all, I use ODAC RCA line out to my power amp, I bet a lot users would like to have a complete DAC + headamp + preamp unit, though I plan to use the headphone output to feed to power amp, thus utilize headamp as preamp, hmm...I'm curious how it works...

 

[Llloyd]

Ah true makes sense to line out to a speaker system from odac.  Slipped my mind.