I love this DAC - it really sounds fantastic and is packed with features, inputs, outputs and great looks. Designed by arguably the best engineer working in this field - John Westlake (Google him if you're not familiar with his work) - I knew it was going to be good even before hearing it.
 
John provides support over on the Pink Fish Media forums and has released firmware updates and fixed customer's units if faults arise. It's a strange situation where a designer working as a consultant (for Audiolab/IAG in this case) is providing repairs outside of the official warranty. Anyway, the community arising around this DAC is growing all the time and it seems to have a great future ahead of it with John's own company, Lakewest, currently designing matching linear psu, amps, a transport and more.
 
I cannot recommend this DAC highly enough and it really should be auditioned if this is your price bracket.

I owned this amplifier for a short while before deciding to sell it on. I bought it on the strength of very positive reviews (5 stars, amp of the year etc.) in UK magazine What HiFi. Paired with my Audiolab MDAC I could hear very little difference between the stock headphone out and this amp into a pair of Grado 80i's. don't get me wrong, the sound quality from the amp was good but I couldn't justify keeping it as it wasn't a significant improvement over the MDAC headphone out. Maybe it needs better 'phones to come alive? I shall never know.