I find your take on the Geek/Stereophile debate actually amusing, in particular the "accurate" part. The dragonfly is sold as a combined DAC/headphone amp. So your average Joe will not plug a preamplifier to it, but plug a pair of headphones to it!  5 minutes on amazon will show you that most...

Hi elmura,   Of course I have an agenda: I want to know what are the real differences between the ODAC, the iFi IDSD, the dragonfly and the HRT streamers as I don't want to buy all of them. So I wanted to understand your review of the iDSD which appears as one of the more informed, and the more...

Hi Elmura,   First of all thanks again for you efforts, they're really appreciated: found for thought. I am not convinced by your "relative measurements" argument and least of all by the swept measurements. You should have found the proper frequency response, and I suspect that your sound card...

Hi elmura, Thanks for the measurements, but there is something wrong here.  This is the frequency response measured by ClieOS: http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k240/ofey_s/iFi/SpectrumiDSDnano.png It's ruler flat down from 100Hz to less than 20Hz while your measurement shows a clear dip. The...

Hi, Thanks for an interesting review. I can't comment on the sound as I don't have any of the two you compare. Also, I don't know from your review on what setup you made the comparison for sound evaluation.   However I am quite surprised by your measurements and your interpretation: 1) the...