There are many saying they will be at the same price point.

I quite like the piece. I really wanted something that would work perfectly in Linux and play DoP. I compared this DAC to many other pieces that cost an order of magnitude more and found that I couldn't hear enough of a difference to justify continued search for now.

Currently around 4T. If anyone else is approaching the 1T size I would seriously recommend checking out beets: http://beets.radbox.org/   Edit: That's 4T of music. It is mostly lossless and I've recently been converting SACDs over to DFF (now that mutagen has added support). I have a good...

I've been using PXC450 on and off for a long time, they are wonderful headphones. Recently I got one of the Geek Out 1000 and would really like to pair with a passive headphone system. I'm looking for something that can pack away like the PXC450, is circumaural and under the 500$ price point...

Quite a great piece of equipment!   If anyone else ran into the issue of hearing pops when changing dsf tracks, please see the discussion here:   http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f11-software/sacd_extract-dsf-output-problem-18114/

TEAC UD-501 on Fedora 19 with MPD 0.17.3 works perfectly.   Their usb implementation is quite nice and is UAC2 compliant.   I think it might have been the commit in kernel 3.10.7 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.10.7

Actually should have posted an update long ago:   TEAC UD-501 on Fedora 19 with MPD 0.17.3 works perfectly.   I think it might have been the commit in kernel 3.10.7 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.10.7

Is anyone aware of a device that would allow me to signal via 12v from something like USB or RS232? I would also prefer to do this via linux, but I bet if there is a device available I can figure out how to make it send a signal.   I want to turn on and off the power outlets on my Furman...

Personally I use MPD with all of these DACs and the TEAC and MSB had wonderful support in linux. I think the MSB is something you just have to hear. I'm glad you're able to spend time with one and make comparisons. If you are looking optimize for cost in your system then the UD-501 seemed to be...

My father has an MSB DAC IV and I was able to compare the UD-501 to it. I feel that although there is significant diminishing returns on something as costly as the DAC IV, there still is a difference that you have to decide overall if the financial cost is worth the perceived value.   I love...

Trying it now on a Fedora 19 box (my laptop)... everything seems to work without issues. I'll listen for another 3 or 4 hours and hopefully not hear an issue.   I really would love to jump to the Benchmark or the Mytek but the TEAC is literally half their cost.

Overall I'm not very happy though. I would like a consistent playback between songs. Frequently I'll be listening to 44khz content and want to hear a song that I only have in 88.2Khz. It sounds like everything is coming through a 100 foot pvc tube with an orchestra of farts playing at the same...

I wanted to report in on the TEAC UD-501. I just got this unit to test it out with Linux and MPD. I have been using MPD for years and really love the audio listening paradigm it supports. In short, this DAC seems to have some problems with USB and Linux. You can get it to play out of the...

I wanted to report in on the TEAC UD-501. I just got this unit to test it out with Linux and MPD. I have been using MPD for years and really love the audio listening paradigm it supports. In short, this DAC seems to have some problems with USB and Linux. You can get it to play out of the...