So you hear a big difference between the two orientations? Another seller (product ID 1005001668174034) claims that these are not directional, but I trust your ears,

Thanks, intriguing!

The link does not work for me. Do you have an Ali product ID?

Thanks @sns109 and @DBB1, and yes I will post further impressions before long. Not sure whether this thread or the Audiogon one is the best place for it? A friend of mine had the Mola Mola Tambaqui so I know that DAC pretty well. He replaced it with a (cheaper) CenGrand DSDAC 1.0 Deluxe which...

Today I received a new 005. Before I used f.i. Lampizator, Pegasus, Terminator, Holo Spring 3 L2, Audio-GD, Teac UD-701N, Leaf Audio CMD27 (with Staccato opamps) and ECdesigns PowerDAC-SX. The latter I plan to keep as a parallel 'unvoiced' all-in-one system. I use a Rose RS130 streamer. I am...

Answer from Ferrum: "Unfortunately without DSD flag DSD will be not properly decoded."

I see that the I2S pin layout expects a DSD flag on one of the pins 13-16. Will it be possible to play DSD over I2S from a DDC that does not send this flag? An example is Audio-GD's DI20HE or DI24HE.

Actually I am offering my Heddphone ONE from 2022 for sale for the simple reason that I now have a dedicated audio room (and no neighbors). This means that I no longer (or hardly) listen to headphones anymore. Just send me a PM when interested. I am in Europe.

Yesterday I tried to drive my Heddphone One from the balanced XLR outputs of my DAC (Leaf Audio CMD27 with Staccato opamps), which has a volume control. I am using a balanced converter cable going from two 3-pin XLR's to one 4-pin XLR. It sounds great! I know that the DAC outputs 4.2V, but I do...

It is hard to compare as I am now using a DAC that only (!) has input for either Toslink (or the esoteric ElectroTos). The DAC is a an ECdesigns PowerDAC-SX. Admittedly limited in its connectivity, but it is so by design. And actually powerful in other respects as it makes external amplification...

I also have this Canadian cable and agree it is very good.

I am avoiding silver plated, but not sure that I should.

With these two boxes you need two USB cables and I noticed that the quality of the latter still makes a difference. However in all cases the USB > fiber > USB setup beats the single USB cable. I have tried Phasure Lush^2 and Xangsane 4N sterling silver USB cables (both very good cables -- I am...

I have something similar (actually 2 boxes with fiber in between) from Aliexpress, with 9V DC input. Best USB ever. Was looking for a link, but seems to be discontinued. Here is a pic.

The clock output on the DI20(HE) is not 10 MHz but a so called word clock output, for which the frequency of the clock signal depends on the resolution of the played file. Devices that can accept this are usually pro gear.