Thank you for your input, Brooko. On the contrary to banned individual above who neither owns, nor had a pleasure to hear Boenicke W5, I actually have these, among two other monitors and Boenicke W8 floorstanders. On top of that, two very decent sources and three amplifiers are nearby. And yes...

Please stop, you bring literally nothing to the table with such comments and obviously don't know what is the matter of discussion here. I enjoy DIY, but if you really think that buying the very same speakers as the ones used in W5, making a similar wooden box and using common crossover will...

Interesting!

Hmmm, not sure if it's only me, but shouldn't line-out be regulated as an option? It seems it's fixed and vol knob handles only 6,3 out. I'm asking you folks because I see K5 and X7 handling power amplifier and a set of speakers without PC or other DAC, but it turns out this scenario is off the...

And those heatsinks made my day :E

Hi,   I haven't seen anything about this new iDAC2 from iFi Audio and I thought I'll start official thread. Apologies if it's already somewhere on Head-fi. Anyone knows anything about this device? If some new informations afloat, I'll post them here.   Cheers, 00L

Yup, a DAP.

Normally I'd agree with you. But the thing is, that W5 does sound incredibly, even though that Fountek and rest of components have very low price. With those boxes it's about engineering, what Sven Boenicke did with drivers and box itself. I'm not saying that those are the best ones out there...

Agreed on B7 vs. L7 part. It's basically the same thing (same engines, analogue and digital parts) with power supply in separated box or integrated with rest of electronics. From what I know, in B7 power supply is actually even a bit more complicated than in L7. And B7 gets fancy blue PCB. As...

Not sure about Mac OS, but HQplayer has the best algorithms do do PCM>DSD on the fly, at least some of my friends, owners of L7 say... I personally use Foo and it works like a charm.

But are you using it? I'm asking because I upsample every material I have to DSD via Foobar. DSD engine in all 7 family sounds much better than PCM one, and IMO that's the key to get the best out of those DAC-s.

  Those WE101D-L you have really are something. The best ones I've heard thus far. But that aside, "7" really is something special. I see no other DAC I'd like to have. I assume you're using DSD engine, not PCM one, right?

Amber = ES9023 L4/5 = that no one knows, marks on chips are removed in those models if I'm not mistaken.

I can only add, that I've listened to those Psvane WE replicas, Electro Harmonix 2A3 and Shuguang 2A3-T. WE101D-L were hands down the best. But that's my take on it. I like my L7 for it's openess, effortless, incredible punchness and huuuuuge space. Though it's fair to say that rest of the setup...

Yup, Pass. I've heard only good things from credible people about what Nelson Pass does. Transparency of Big7 or Level7 plus Pass texture, and organic presentation of those bricks, damn...   Yet, on that high price levels there are also Crayon CHA-1 and Goldmund Telos...   OK, time to get...

I also have Psvane WE101D-L, and those are amazing. Łukasz thinks those sound the best in his application.

It's not anymore. It has been, for more than two years. I need to finally update my platform rig in some places. Now I'm using Level7 and COS Engineering D1. Though NuForce REF9 V3SE are still used, those are solid performers. And as a HPO there's Questyle CMA800R (which is great with HD800 - my...

I've seen it, it's safe to say it looks good. But I'll ask Fikus himself to send some B7 or GG boards assembled. Once he does that, I'll put them here. 

As I wrote, LaScala MKII is a great device to have. Yet, it's exactly on the same shelf as DP-777. I'm leaning towards version, that those two are very comparable SQ wise. Not in the sense of tonal balance, smoothness, airness etc., obviously different DAC-s are onboard and so on, but refinement...

I'm also more of a speaker guy than headphone one these days.

After a while I've figured   I don't think there's a single person who wouldn't agree with you here. AMR products look excellent.

I wasn't stating that it's perfect, there is room for improvement. Yet, You've put some pictures from old models and I merely showed you how it looks now. That is all. 

  Wrong, those are old versions. For a couple of months all (including Amber) units have more PCB's than point-to-point soldering. I encourage you to look here:   http://lampizator.eu/Fikus/BIG_7.html   Lampizator makes only few models, and based on what your transport is you pick one...