Hi, very interested in this test program. I live in Italy.   X.

Received the Z7 this evening. Attached in balanced mode to the PHA-3. Just tested with my iPad and iTunes from there, no high res files. Not a great initial impressione. Thin sound, but this is not the best chain.   Attached the PHA-3 to sleep on charger, removed the balanced cable from the Z7...

I´m waiting the PHA-3 that will be delivered to me in few days. Anyway, telling the differences between two high quality portable dac will be hard: the chip inside PHA-3 is one of the best available now and the pcb around should be well engineered by Sony: from my experience, you can probably...

Naim sound, musicality and PRAT

Best customer service ever. They are probably working hard but usually reply within 24 hours.

I made a long listening session with the LCD 3 and the Concero HP: while it is a very pleasant pairing, it will not perform like the pairing with HD800 that it is absolutely stunning IMHO. With the LCD-3 everything seems correct and very enjoyable to listen but you miss some power: you can...

Tried with AKG K3003i, very very good pairing

For what I know, it has been announced and It could be available anytime soon.

It seems to me kcee refer to his old Concero (not the HD but the Original) that seems to have had a lower output level then the new HD version.

Resonessence Labs is by far one (Violectric/Lake People is another one) of the best small hi-end companies for great and kind support, very customer oriented, with their engineers really interested in knowing what people think about products and improvements. Both are very open mind and...

Quote:   Yes, I can confirm that every time the Concero HP start in Bit-Perfect mode (blu led). That should be by design at current 2.2 firmware revision.

Quote:   You can have a look of Phil post here: post #927   I'm in a business trip and I'm trying the Concero HP with the AKG K3003i IEM, fabulous. I don't miss my fullsize headphones so much!    

Quote:   I think there will be no party. The ESS Sabre ES90182M DAC inside both Concero HD and HP has 384KHz at 32bit with DSD/DXD compatibility: should be far better (and I'm quite sure it is) both for specs and sound presentation. My Concero HP perform deliciously well, full...

I confirm once again some audible but subtle differences between three HD800 tested carefully. Sound signature is the same anyway.

Quote:   x2, I miss my DAC 1.5 a lot. Compared to my latest DACs, it missed details, but it has had very good bass texture, musical and airy relaxing sound. Unfortunately its not so powerful hpa wasn't up to its DAC section.