I cannot remember where I saw it, but someone confirmed officially that it is only +or- 0.6db. I believe it was quoted directly by A&K customer support in another thread.

No, the EQ on A&K devices are not descent! This is one area where A&K absolutely refuses to listen to its customer complaints. They give you a parametric EQ that is about 0.6db worth of adjustment range up or down. It really is a pathetic thing and nobody understands why A&K insists on such...

I had a DX300 it was big ole POS, sent it back. You will like the SE200 better. What a lot of people dont realize is that DAP's with swappable amps have scaled down parts in them. They have to sacrifice part quality to cram all that stuff in a swappable card, smaller caps for example, it is not...

Any word on the embedded Tidal App fix, when in May it is coming?? @JasonNYC

Shanling M8 -> Cayin C9->CA OG Vega= OMGawd that BASS!!! Drum & Bass sounds intense!

The part about hardly anyone having a true Line Out and the Roon implementation. Ok, ok, I disagree with about 98% of what was said there. @bluestorm1992 is right though, lets steer it back on topic. I already had my massive A&K rant on the SP2000 thread, no need to rehash it here.

I disagree with pretty much 99% of what was said here. All opinion and very little fact..... Oh and last I tried to stream A&K's app was broken, still waiting a month later for the fix. And dont even get me started on A&K useless EQ, it is like a really unfunny joke... How does that A&K KoolAid...

Agreed! Astell & Kern is way overrated in general...... Glad I found Shanling and finally stopped drinking the A&K KoolAid....

I have been running tube amps on all my dap's from the begining. Once you get a taste for that Sweet Tube Mojo, there is no going back, it is like Audio Porn.

Yeh, I really love the C9 though. I have not listened to my Continental Duel Mono's since I got the C9 in. I have 3 CDM's and was even considering selling one, but I need to do more comparisons first. Each one of my CDM's has a different pair of tubes rolling in it, so trying to figure which...

Im just saying, that I think the HIFi cable makers are extorting their customers in general and that money could be better spent elsewhere in the audio chain. I do not have the same kind of trust in manufacturing costs, and find most marketing to be shady business in general. I am not arguing...

I agree with you on allot of things Whitigir, but not when it comes to justifying outrageously expensive cables. I have been having this same expensive cable debate since my days working at Guitar Center in the Studio and the pro expensive argument usually ends up becoming absurd. I definitely...

The cables that Cayin provides are of very good quality IMO. Getting a custom one made to the same quality would cost you about $100. As far as cables go, about the $100-200 dollar range is the sweetspot for IEM and interconnect cables. That will get you quality components, with careful...

What country are you in? Any idea where to get them in the USA?

Very interested, but I prefer to stay more with the mobile setups. M30 seems more like a small desk rig to me, no.....?

Well im a Tubehead, so this sounds promising! Tubes are FTW!!

Anybody who can get their hands on a Phatlab Chimera, I would be interested in hearing your opinions and comparison to the C9?

Phatlab Chimera

I find that rather than using the pause function on the dap, you get better sound quality if you just install a "mute" button directly on the Wife Unit.....😁

So what is the point of these duel plug adapters, vs a simple single male to male cable??

Since @JasonNYC is not answering, does anybody know what day in May the embedded Tidal fix is suppose to roll out??

Low gain, or high gain mode?

Because 99% of the dap's on the market have no true line out. It is all double amping, despite what the DAP says in settings.

@Whitigir is it better to set power amp at full volume and adjust overall gain from the DAP, or is it better to set the DAP at full volume and adjust overall volume from the amp? When I do the former, sometimes I get distortion/clipping, when I do the latter I get hiss. Just wondering from your...

@JasonNYC when is the embedded Tidal App fix coming? Last I heard is was just "May", but when in May??