Very quick shipping, good condition. Great experience.

Is there any possibility of you shipping to the US? I am genuinely interested.

How does seeking work on the Urd? I really don't have high standards, but I have rejected several CD transports because the seeking happens in 1+ second intervals. I currently use an old Sony player with SPDIF out which allows me to seek through tracks in intervals that feel a lot more like...

It looks to be an A90D driving a pair of transformers (likely 1:50 ratio judging by Vpp spec of A90D vs EHA5); make of that what you will. The main point of concern IMO is whether the bias circuit is properly implemented with a ballast resistor.

I found my IR thermometer, the top of the Aegir where the Zendac was sitting reads 42.5 Celsius after I've been playing music for a while. Shouldn't be too hot for digital electronics I'd imagine. Was running the zendac off the included ipower adapter.

I got a Zendac Signature v2 recently, and man, I missed the burr brown sound : ) From memory I do think it sounds more refined than the normal zendac. Sounded really smooth and clean. Unfortunately, had to return my unit because it had a weird issue with heat. I put my DAC on top of my Aegir...

You only need to know the first 5 digits of your serial, and it tells you what those are on the site itself when you pick the DAC model. The last 5 digits can be any random set of numbers; I just type "12345" and it takes me to the download page just fine. Easier than trying to read off the...

What sort of FR effect you will see depends on the impedance curve of the particular IEM you are using. Some IEMs have flat impedance curves, some have a lot of swinging up and down, some have a slope in one direction or the other. Areas of the frequency response with higher impedance will have...

The iematch is simply a voltage divider circuit, and it has some tradeoffs. If you want to push the output impedance under 1 ohm, then you would either have to make it attenuate significantly more to the point that it would be impractical, or you would have to load the amp with an extremely low...

The spot where it sharply cuts off is likely due to the AAC codec settings Youtube uses, it only goes up to iirc 16khz. Below that point the treble rolloff is likely rig-related since graph is a delta so absolute quantity of treble in the original is irrelevant; you can see what happens when...

slightly pointless exercise but I extracted FR delta of these compared to the original track (please note hifimans are different vertical scale; didnt catch that when taking screenshots) (also ignore below 40hz and upper treble region, take all of these with a huge lump of salt) Sadly it...

Ive been unable to find clear info on this; how exactly does the front XLR headphone out hook up? From what I've been reading, the impedance knob does affect it so it's not just a passthrough. What sort of ratios does it use? What is the output impedance?

Personally I think it's great that a niche audiophile product like this has a version for a larger professional market (particularly one accustomed to paying a lot for equipment). More incentive for r&d and lower cost to keeping the consumer version around long term.

Just a heads up, Woo WEE is not particularly recommended due to lacking ballast resistors which can damage the headphone. Not sure if they've fixed this in current units, or whether the CRBN's unique diaphragm construction is even affected by this omission tho. Not to mention WEE is less than...

Interesting, that definitely looks like the same chip there. On the Signature I'd expect most of the improvement to come from the lack of an amp circuit more so than from the caps, unless your usb power is particularly dirty or something. Lacking an amp could allow the DAC section to operate...