Thanks for well written impressions! Jan suggested MkII upgrade, and I simply dare not remove the Soul component from my system and await for it to come back, no can do. Your experiences safeguard that the contemplation will go on until I try it out. Maybe I need to start saving money for a...

I have ordered three times from audiocables.eu, XLR interconnects and XLR 4m headphone cables for Hifiman and Sennheiser. Smooth delivery and build quality is good. Cannot comment on headphone cables sound, I have no way to compare original cables with different connectors. (And I’m not...

I got pretty much the same experiences with testing the spatial audio with Airpods 3rd gen. I use them for calls and on the go. When playing music at a railway station, you start looking if there is a speaker playing on the ground, or if your phone is playing via speaker. Changes sound totally...

For analog inputs, the front panel digital gain switch has no effect, but there is internal gain switch for analog gain high/low optimization (mentioned in manual chapter ’Volume control’).

I took the Soul MkI version just to be sure with the analog input, because I want to play my vinyl occasionally. Now that I have tested vinyl playing through speakers, the MkII version might have been loud enough as well in my modestly sized room, I still have 6dB more headroom in the power amp...

Hi, I just recently bought the Corda Soul and I had to register to this forum just to say that it is brilliant headphone amplifier, DAC and pre-amplifier. Very clear and ”charming” sound, and worked incredibly well also as preamplifier in my loudspeaker setup. Jan answered all my questions...