Thanks! I don't always promise you'll like my / our answers but we at least try and be honest about them!

Hmmm... my thoughts on an R2R DAC. To get my real thoughts would probably require more Bourbon than you have handy... Seriously, though: We do DSP stuff. Never say never but I can't see a reason why we'd do an R2R DAC. To properly implement one, you have to be extremely precise in component...

The Vortex X4 will be a standalone Streamer / DAC / Headphone amp (much better than the Comet's!) and it can be used as a standalone headphone system without a Comet. Our target MSRP is about $3,000. Hopefully that's a price point that will keep your body parts all attached to you! (It's pretty...

Hey! No worries! I'm not one of those guys who looks at something we did that sucks and spends time trying to convince you that it doesn't suck! We know it sucks. And like I said, we learned our lessons... But fear not, I'm sure we'll do other things that suck in the future!

We're putting a volume knob on the X2 through X4 models of our Vortex Streaming Hub family and it will also adjust the Comets volume. And the X4 also has a higher quality headphone amp and it can be used as a standalone Streamer/DAC/Headphone Amp. That will be out this summer so hopefully you'll...

Hi there! Thanks for all the comments. I just thought I'd provide answers to a couple of things I saw. Re: The headphone jack. Wasn't an attempt to be "edgy" or clever or anything like that... Our honest assumption of the "Use Case" for the thing was: "Honey I'm going to bed. Can you finish that...