Guys!! Will need you to chime in on this one!! Just saw a pre-owned Wadia 12 DAC on the local forum for a very good price!! Dual AD1865N-Ks, fully balanced. Inputs are BNC and RCA SPDIF, AES/EBU and ST fibre. Seems pretty baller to me. I'm thinking if this is even better sounding than my Theta...

Quoted from the Stereophile review of the M51 "The NAD resamples everything you throw in its direction and converts it to a pulse-width-modulation (PWM) signal, the native format for DSD, at a sampling rate of 844kHz, all controlled by a clock running at 108MHz." Basically it is uses the sigma...

Yup the fiber is good stuff if you can source the matching transport :p Wow those caps! I'd love to have mine undergo a little refresh including getting the stock power cord replaced with some good Furutech cord and plug, but it just sounds so good now that I'm afraid I'll tilt the perfect...

Enjoy your Theta!! Nope when the owner advertised it he told me it was single ended only, and then I went to do a Google search. The DSPro Gen III comes in single ended and balanced versions, the single ended having two boards while the balanced has four. Different price points, identical sound...

Absolutely!! Forget the Sabres I've given up on them after hearing the Mytek, Auralic and Resonessence stuff. Not sure why top designs these days still use the Sabre. Maybe because having 8 channels in a quad mono configuration measures very well but sound wise, meh... Even among the SD designs...

Hi guys, Just picked up a Theta DSPro Gen III for a really good price!! The price is just too good to resist not giving it a try. Decided to go the R2R route because the current crop of sigma delta DACs just don't cut it, especially those with the ESS Sabre silicon (Ahem) R2R became my cup of...

Ok edit! I found pictures of people using the A5 in portrait orientation!! This is a sure win for me, imma gonna get my hands on one!

People! If anyone of you buy an A5, let me know whether the UI works in portrait screen orientation. All over YouTube and Cowon's promotional pictures I have only seen the A5 being used in landscape orientation. If it is fully landscape only it could be a major dealbreaker.   I really love...