This will be the second review on this product that needs, by seeing the number of review, to be discover more! I was searching a DAC for our home-theater/audio setup. Composed by 3 Totem Tribe III because the rest of the family is more axed on the movie section I took an Integra 70.5 for the amplification section but I wanted to bypass its DAC. My retailer in Québec as a 100$ off on the UD-501 and for what it can do, I took it right of the bath. The support of DSD was a benefit for me because I have a lot of DSD music on my NAS and the only way to play it was to send the audio via the HDMI connection of my computer to the amplifier directly with some transcoding involved by JRiver. I compared the sound to the integrated DAC in the Integra (not a bad one at all for a receiver) and the sound is more rich in the high, but the soundstage is wider without being undefined. When listening with headphones, I use the UD with the "sharp" filter for PCM and the FIR2 which is most neutral one with my Focal Listen, but it's set on "slow" for PCM with a pair of Grado RS2i because damn they are too sharp! Overall, it acts very good as an headphones amplifier, and the power output is more than enough for the headphones I have.
Like in the video, changing the input selector to Coax and going back to USB resolve the problem but it's annoying... Maybe it's my USB cable that came with an HP printer... Next purchase!
Like in the video, changing the input selector to Coax and going back to USB resolve the problem but it's annoying... Maybe it's my USB cable that came with an HP printer... Next purchase!
thanks