^^ agreed...   minimum volume level on iDevices has long history of being too loud....   was hopeful Audeze would have addressed this glaring issue...   btw....who decided an office should be the standard for noise floor...?!?   i suggest a 'gnat fart' should be the standard....lol

received my iSine20 from HB in Vanc a few days ago...travis is the man btw...   working on more detailed summary...   but....these things have NO business sounding this good out a stoopid iDevice...   spotify/tidal is OK...can actually decipher losses easier...FLACs are freaky good....  ...

I'd just like to report that after many, many hard miles, including daily journeys to the gym and often bouncing around in the bottom of my laptop bag....my RWAK100 continues to do a very fine job of feeding my Merlins... In fact just last week, it survived a full wash cycle, rescued just...

currently burning (50hrs+) in the BG's with the stock tubes (waiting for 200hrs to employ the mullard and nos reflektors) ....FR seems a bit varied at times....however the depth of the SS is excellent, width, thus far, perhaps above average....      

i found and shipped off to Donald 4x BG NX 470uF capacitors which serve the role of cathode bypass for each triode section...they were rather dear as well...   all told ~$425usd worth of cap upgrades...

My factory modded S2 ships tomorrow...!

Quote:  but with a 22 ohm o/i, sounds nasty with any low/mid impedance IEMs i tried it with...ymmv

nice...thanks for update...!

Quote:     wladrus...any word on Listrid 3.0...?

Quote:     ...then subscribe to the new thread....         Huh...?   the S mod forces the unit to run in hardware mode...no firmware changes for the S that are gonna effect sound...what you get from Wolfson/RWA is what you get...end of it...  what ak...

I think it reasonable that the RWA S version owners start their own impressions/appreciation thread as the mod significantly and effectively changes the device parameter and intention.... Lets keep this thread devoted to the AK/RWAK/MS-AK and others the retain the amplified output stage...

it could be more beautiful if your battery was gold and you were facing due magnetic north... 

Quote:   FTFY

i see the golden ear gang is nowhere to be found...LOL   perhaps they'r busy A/B/C/D/E/F wave/flac/aiff vs 32/64/128 vs SSD/SD/SDHC/SDXC vs dawn/daytime/dusk/nightime vs empty bladder/empty colon; empty bladder/full colon...etc...   whew...a lot of permutations there...the things people...

sorry for the tardy reply...   as it turned out, the LCD2 cable was the culprit...i sourced a great deal on a TC Silver Poison and the presentation was vastly improved across the board...