I suppose I have been in the dark when it comes to the sheer performance of the LH Geek Out V2. Until I stumbled onto this set of measurements, I did not realize the V2 and its successors were objectively superior to the Objective 2 and the ODAC. I had been doing some digging for scraps of information on the Geek Out V2 and what I unearthed from Archimago's blog is eye opening. From what I discovered, the Geek Out V2 has benchmark-grade measured performance across the entire battery of acoustic tests, including frequency response, noise level, dynamic range, total harmonic distortion, intermodulation distortion, and stereo crosstalk. Talk about a product hitting way above its price range! It would be nice if Archimago one day performed tests on the AudioQuest's revised Dragonfly line with the Red and Black models.
(Also from his site, I have corroborated why I thought my Surface sounds so much better than the Dragonfly 1.2 I heard years ago. The Surface Pro 3 is a whole magnitude lower in total harmonic distortion and intermodulation distortion! Currently, I have a Surface Pro 4 and it sounds subjectively cleaner so I would naturally expect its numbers to be even better.)