Hi to all,
i've bought from some days the DX200 (standard), i got too late on the thread, i jumped on the wagon thread at page 1000! (now i'm synched at page 1334 LOL).
Anyway, i would like to share some impressions and ask for some suggestions.
First the impressions.
I come from ifi micro iDSD wich served me so well for so much time.
I wanted to experience the "Sabre clarity" and so I was searching for a USB DAC (99% of time I listen directly from Laptop with Foobar).
I encountered the iBasso 200 line, wich supported USB DAC, it was portable too (why not?) it had a double Sabre, it played DSD 512 and it didn't needed a gold mine to buy.
So got it.
As soon as it arrived, i upgraded to the last firmware, put the usb cable and started the comparison with the iDSD.
Well... i was quite... deluded... it didn't sound nothing special...no presence, no soundstage, no bass, no the mytical "Sabre Clarity".
After more than 2 hours switching back and forth (from iDSD to DX200) i was almost to say "Well, we tried it, Sabre was just a myth",
and i was on the line to putting in back into the pack.
And then it happened. Suddendly it started to sound...unbelievable.
I stopped foobar and i looked at the DX200 suspiciosly (What?).
Another back and forth with the iDSD and yes this other "new" object (where do you come from?) was really sounding in that way.
Fantaastic and unbelievably.
Comparing to the iDsd it was something like a veil, a courtain was lifted from the sound.
The iDsd had all the same sound signature, just veiled, and the dx had lifted the veil.
So presence, so clarity, so soundstage, so.... so....
Ok end of the impressions. Later i understood i was just too stupid not having done the burn-in (wich was part of the setup!).
Btw, happy to have resisted 2 hours listening to it (and having reached the burn-in treshold)
Now the suggestions.
I've read in the thread that the DX200ti (and the DX220) have the AMP1 MKii.
I like the analytical and airy sound and i'm bonded with not-balanced IEMs atm.
So, i would like to improve the listening.
From what i can read, my only option is the AMP7 (AMP9 is tube and i imagine it's just the opposite of airy and analytical).
So, someone as experience with the AMP7 vs AMP1 and AMP7 vs AMP1 MKII?
Moreover (i know this is quite difficult), some of you want to sell a AMP1 Mk II from his DX200ti (I've read that almost all of you DX200ti owners had switchted to AMP8)?
I would gladly pay the price of it as new.
Le me know
ps.
Another impression.
I've just done a quick test with the mango player, comparing a flac played from foobar + USB and the same flac played from SD + Default Mango Player.
The result is plain s**it. Pheraps i'm losing some piece?