Received mine today, and honestly right out of the box I can hear that is a great unit, this is even without the burn in of the tubes that had been ordered on top of the stock at ALOaudio. I was a little worried about losing clarity and some of the nuances that I have heard with my M-stage upgraded with the LME4990x2 in there. Because that is a killer solid state, and I will say even with out some actualy burn in it has some authority. I used both my HD600s and my ER4PT IEMs on low gain, both being dead silent between the music. I am very happy with that. Now I just have to let these NOS french tubes burn in, and then give as go with some tube rolling. I wonder anyone and everyone if you had one pair of tubes that you could use with this unit...what would they be?
The DAC is quite good I would say on a level with the CDAC+ that I use to have, and loved, and that is a relief honestly. Because some all in one units sacrifice one and or the other DAC and Amp.
SO far this seems to have focused on making a great unit all around,and the only real thing for me that I would of added would be RCA output to use a solid state amp if wanted, because I bet this would have been an even bigger hit.
Again anyone and or everyone, one set of tubes you could use with this unit what would it be?