mind u, no DAP could work with a dedicated DAC -- there's no digital-signal-out even though u could have a USB out DAPs only have phone-out, maybe also line-out when connected to a DAP, icon mobile works merely as an amp DACs work with CD players or computers only

i'm just trying to understand your situation here, do u use a LOD? "when the signal is double amped, the signal is so clean that the distortion is slim to none" don't really mean to offend u, but when the distortion is there, however slim, it's there. no amp in this world was designed to...

1st, i have to say i'm not familiar with Zune they make LOD for it? do u use one? yes, i think every player has a phone out, but only few have a line out (an unamped source, which is to be fed into an amp) some players could use a LOD, and even E5 gives much better performance when...

good account, and u've travelled a great distance in 5 months!! it seems you have never fed your portable amps to a line out source, right? if so, ... they were not used as designed