Hey thanks, they have exciting specs and quality components for a very good price. Do they really get close to the fidelity of DACS in the $1,500-2,500 price ranges. Thanks will check those pages.   edit: thanks for the noise/hiss feedback  : ) Thats what I wanted to hear.

Hi there. a lot of bang for the buck from Audio GD... can anyone confirm any shortcomings ?   I was looking at their array of balanced output DACs such as the :   I am wondering about the audio quality of such ESS based units and whether the noise (hiss) performance is extremely good...