tim3320070
Headphoneus Supremus
He means any poorer source including the lesser USB inputs on his DAC's, could be coax (version A only), usb or optical.
Can't answer that. I have had 8 different AGD products with no issues over the last 2 years. They are not perfect but no one is, at least Kingwa takes care of things if they go wrong and he is someone I trust.
Arrived this morning. Paid 21st Feb, shipped out 22nd April, arrived 28th April.
Not too bad considering the shortage of cases and overwhelming orders from the end of last year (however initial word from Edwin was mid March).
Pretty hardcore packing in the box. Tape, tape, tape.
My first impressions (just USB because I'm waiting for a short coax cable to arrive). I'm surprised with the power this compact device brings out. It's actually beyond my imagination that burning in will brighten it up and bring out even more as others said, because it feels like this thing is kicking full guts out of my DT990 600ohm already.
Volume I like is about 12 o'clock at high gain for the DT990 which is pretty power hungry. Synergy with bright cans seems to be true, the NFB-12 is very very neutral. However the treble of DT990 still stings for many songs so I had to EQ it down to atleast listen for few hours. Makes me think I won't need the Sabre DAC models if I'm staying with bright cans and only have recordings up to 48kHz 16bit.
Noise is so, so low, like nothing atleast with my PC's USB. I used the SE535 to check, I can't hear anything when music is paused or stopped. Excellent.
I want to proceed with burning in, but I'm wondering what to do. Should I just let it play music 24/7 through my DT990 or speakers? Or can the headphones be plugged out, speakers turned off while I'm not in front of the PC?
according to the website, the DI is mostly for improving on poor coax sources: [size=x-small]The coaxial input can improve on SQ from some low/mid rang coaxial output source. Like some DVD player, PC sound card, low/mid rang CDP like the Marantz CD67, ect. If the coaxial output source already quite Hi-end, don't expect the Digital Interface can improve on SQ.[/size]
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If I were to order one tomorrow, how long would delivery be to the U.S. east coast? I would like to have one for its DAC. Thanks