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He liked Eximus, thats all. The rest is not interesting, bla bla bla, cant call this an review, more kind of overview. The only music menitoned was Russian romance, acoustic guitar and female voice, which was very good through Eximus.
To my ears, the DP1 sounds more like a musical instrument than a mere DAC.....sure there are always technically superior guitars or synthesizers, they measure better, they sound clearer and less colored........but at the end of the day, people still use ages old violins and electronic gear from the 70's because they simply sound "good".
The DP1 is using OPA627, hardly ground-breaking........and it might even take a while to appreciate its sonic color as you can easily find clearer sounding gear out there, and for a lot less money too. But once you're hooked to its sweet 3D SS, you are doomed
My real world experience has kinda proven me that there's always a compromise to be made between 3D SS, creamy mids and deep bass.....sure you can find a bassier headamp than the DP1's(reason why they added the megabass "filter" button I would guess) but more bass inherently means less mids, and I happen to be a mids-head
The LCD2 is another good example, you get thunderous deep bass but the SS would appear to be very narrow and the mids slightly recessed, hah....I'll stick to the very light vintage yamies with their creamtastic mids, highly percussive non-bloated bass and 3D SS, TYVM.
It's a bit of a let-down that for $3K they didn't take the opportunity to feed the USB input of the DP1 from its internal PSU but I guess they just wanted to slap a U3 board in there and call it day(the DP1 supposedly took 10 years to be designed), it also gives something to play around with so no biggy ^^