thanks for your opinion rogue, it is very helpfull indeed. From what you are telling I have to lean towards the shiit very much. I guess having balanced out's doesn't help if the sound isn't good.   Now I am obsessing about gungnir... oh boy... if i wait for another half a year I might be...

Hi guys,   I'm new here and try to figure out which DAC to get next. Let me tell a bit about my situation first.   My main source for music is my Laptop. I use the inbuilt coax out to drive some active studio monitors (Elac Am150s) that have an integrated DAC. As headphones I use the ATH-ES7...

Hi, my name is Clemens and I've been browsing headfi on and off for some time now. A while ago I bought some ATH-ES7 and realized how much better music can sound when you get somewhat decent headphones ;-) After that I also bought some Hippo VBs for portable use and really love them as well...