One of the DAC is lopsided! Your definitely biased against it!
Actually, for those wondering, the thing that is lopsided on top of the Stealth and irDAC is the 5-way Niles switch -- the DACs are all nice and level... though stacked on top of each other a bit. The switch has worked well so far. I put it there because I needed it somewhere in the middle so that (1) all the wires would reach it, and (2) I could easily reach it from my seat. It doesn't really care about being off kilter, and it is pretty small and light -- plus it is held in place by 6 cables -- so it is fine where it is.
Actually arranging all of these boxes (along with 3 amps) in the cabinet has been a bit of a challenge, since until I opened the boxes I really didn't know if they would all fit. Amazingly, they all did... but with more coming, I don't think I'll continue to be this lucky. I'm gonna have to do some testing, then pull some units out, swap in others. And of course with its beautiful bump, the PureDAC can't be under any of the others. (Please read that as lewdly as you'd like).
Again, that's why I wanted the new ones up and running ASAP, so I could run them for a few days and have everybody in reasonably equal "break-in" status, then swap out as needed for comparison (and space) purposes. I'll swap the DM Source in on Wednesday when the adapter shows up after the others have already been in for at least 4 days (100 hours). I will then have it running in parallel on the side to burn in while I test the others. I had intended it to be in the first group, so it will have to be near the end of that group, but that will work.
The only other question is when the PureDAC will be here, but with 7 slots available and everybody else already burned in it isn't a big deal to run it on the side for 4-5 days to get it to 100 hours. I had planned to have it in the second group anyway, so that will work as well.
Sorry to bore you folks with all of the logistical details, but I wanted to give you a sense of what it's like to arrange a test like this. Not hard, but you do have to be somewhat organized and also flexible, because stuff never goes as originally planned. Plus I need to talk about something until I can actually start the testing...