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Usually balanced mode is double power versus SE (it's the same signal as SE but on both + and inversed on -, whether on SE you get the signal only on + and zero-ground on -), so it is always notably louder with the same volume knob position.

There are 80 steps in the volume control.  According Yulong: from -60dB to -20dB every step has an increase of 1dB, from -20dB to 0dB the value is 0,5dB   Mine works this way - yours seems to be defective.

Thank you for the idea - I will try the DA8 at my office tomorrow.

I don't have any UPS with sin-wave (I'm not sure if I can plug this audio equipment into cheap stepped voltage UPS) to try..

I've got 3 headphones - HD800 (300 ohm), DT660 (32 ohm) and IEMs Shure SE215 (20 ohm). With HD800 the amp is absolutely silent, but with DT660 I hear hiss all the time no matter how high I set the volume - it's quite anoing when playing music without much dynamic range compression (nearly all...

I've got 3 headphones - HD800 (300 ohm), DT660 (32 ohm) and IEMs Shure SE215 (20 ohm). With HD800 the integrated amp is absolutely silent, but with DT660 I hear hiss all the time no matter how high I set the volume - it's quite anoing when playing music without much dynamic range compression...

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As always - thank you very much for your reviews and answers on the forum! Just ordered DA8 here in Russia locally and for a reasonable price, CMA800R has passed customs today, so I will be back next week with my initial impressions of my new setup: DA8 - CMA800R - HD800

Please allow me an other question on DAC choosing for matching with single CMA800R & HD800 (stock cable). Leaving Auralic Vega & Questyle CAS192 out (too expensive for me at the moment) Now I'm choosing between DA8 & Firestone Tobby & Schiit Gungnir. They will be pluged directly into usb of a...

I hope so. A month ago I made a comparison between Matrix X-sabre (after 20 hours burn in) and my Audio-gd NFB10.32 (dual Wolfson WM8741, $600). I was using Stax 507 headphones and SRM 600 limited energizer. To my surprise I could not tell the DACs apart in a A/B comparison in 3 sessions on...

Thank you for a detailed answer. If it's not better than the DA8 by a good margin I think that I will steak to the DA8 because of a lower price.

  Can you please tell us how the CAS192 sounds in comparison with Yulong DA8 and Invicta? I'm currently awaiting my already ordered CMA800R (HD800 already on hand) and looking for a nice DAC (usb input only) to use it with instead of the current Audio-gd NFB 10.32. I'm listening mainly to...

But after Stax 507 or HD800 I hate listening to classical music on my SE215 at home (for sound quality reasons they are usable for me only on the way). This week I will get myself a pair of DT660 for use at home in non ideally quiet conditions - you can PM me by the end of the week if you want...

IEMs, expeccially with foam tips like Shure SE215/SE315 give much better sound isolation (even without any music playing I hardly hear what people are saying in the same room). The difference between HD380 or BT660 or any other non IEMs won't be that immence.