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I suspected at least a couple of them would have a good fit for my AK100II, HA-2 and other stuff. The sizes were a gamble for me.

I bought this on my vacation in Asia for $1. Using it to store my Oppo HA-2, it's accessories and Shure SE846. I bought a whole bunch of variations for different purposes. You could try to use keywords such as camera pouch on eBay to search for one.

Oppo HA-2 + Shure SE846 is the best sounding portable setup I ever had. The sound quality is jaw-dropping. I sold my AK100II because it's sound quality didn't meet my expectations, especially being such an expensive device. I'm tempted to buy the HA-2SE but I'll wait for the HA-3 if it will be...

  I'm using an SE846 with the Oppo HA-2 and it's really the best sounding combination I have so far. I used the SE846 with an Astell & Kern AK100II for a year. Even though the AK100II looks and feels very premium, I always found it's CS4398 DAC to sound unimpressive. I switched to the HA-2. It...

I found these threads. According to them, it's an issue when you power on the LD MKIII. It can put 60 VDC on the ouput connectors at startup. You can overcome it by warming up the tube amp first and then turning on the power/integrated amp to avoid the peak. I will stop using the preamp feature...

The wall outlet is AC and it's converted to DC for my amp. I hooked up my LD MKIII's preamp out to my amp's line in using an RCA-cable.

My Sony MDS-JA50ES MiniDisc recorder and CDP-XA50ES CD Player

I'm using my Little Dot MKIII with Mullard M8161 EF92 tubes as a pre-amp. My amp is an integrated one, thus using it's own pre-amp, but Having the LD MKIII between the CD player and amp does improve the sound a lot. Especially instrument separation and the typical tube sound. I wish I could...

The S7 has a "Lucky" audio chip. Presumably from Cirrus Logic. The volume is weak and unconvincing indeed. That's why I use the OPPO HA-2 SABRE32 portable USB DAC with the S7.

The hiss seems to be signal hiss. That's why the volume level doesn't affect it.

I hear hiss coming out of the HA-2 when using the SE846. I can only hear it at fading out moments or when the music is playing while no sound is supposed to be heard (intro, etc.). Or at the transition between songs. When sound is heard,it overrules the hiss.

Upsampling is pointless. All it does is fill the data with blank bits and add empty frequency samples.

Using my S7 with my OPPO HA-2 DAC and SE846. The sound quality of this setup is mindblowing. Highly addictive sound.

Same here. I chose HA-2 because of the SABRE32 and looks.

I use SE846. The hiss is only audible when a song is paused. The hiss is so soft that any sound nullifies it. It is completely inaudible when music is playing so it's not an issue at all. The sound quality of the oppo HA-2 is so impressive that I have no regrets.