I have this same issue with a Crane Song Solaris. I think it's a fairly common issue for many of these enthusiast DACs.

I would be buying the Everest variant if I go the Playmate route. Soundstage and seperation is important to me, but I have read that the Conductor 3 is a big improvement on the V2+, so I'm not sure if the same differences would apply.

I need to buy a new headphone DAC/AMP for work to replace my AudioLabs M-DAC+ (long story short - need something without Bluetooth) and, being Australian, I'm pretty keen to give Burson a try. Headphones will be DT1770s (I need the isolation haha), so efficient and easy to drive. I've narrowed...

Unfortunately, both my good headphones are 3 pin single plug inputs so to wire to balanced (or, more importantly, to independent L/R ground/return), would involve pulling them apart. In particular the 1770s I would need to replace the 3 pin mini-XLR with a 4 pin. I think that money would be...

Has anybody heard the difference between the 29 and the 28 in SE? I need to replace my dacamp and i like what I've been readong on the AGD 28/29.38 units. My current headphones are mid range and SE (DT-1770Pro for example). I know Kingwa has stated that, for SE, the 28 will be a downgrade from...

I'd also like to hear some more about this phone... I do a lot of listening on the move where a decent phone/source combo would be useful. Currently tossing up between the 64GB Q-DAC LG G6 and the Xperia XZ Premium... the latter is better in the feature department (newer processor and side...

BloodyPenguin Any updates? Wouldn't mind hearing something about the 2S as well if some here has one.