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EY YAH! EY YAH! Is an expression which is a throw back to my youth growing up in da Bronx. My dad would take us out to Chinatown every Saturday morning in NYC to get supplies for the household for the next week.
Chinatown in NYC was and probably still is full of groups of old Chinese bachelors hanging in restaurants or sitting out there on stoops. Whenever a shapely or good looking lady would happen by, they would wait until she passed and look at each other and go EY YAH! and depending on intonation she would then be rated and that would fire a debate about whether she deserved that particular intonation or not until the next hottie would pass by, and then the discussion would turn to that one and on and on.
I haven't thought of EY YAH! in a long time, which is obviously an exclamation (in Cantonese) of surprise and delight. Well, I have to tell you, the new SuperDuals are EY YAH! of the Highest Intonation-not coincidentally coming from a Chinese batchelor. If the production versions are as good as the RC3 I have, Xin's going to sell a lot of these.
This one's competition for the XP-7. The RC3 (still a prototype) is the only other amp that I know of that has a similar sound signature to the XP-7. (with 8610 opamps) it is warm, involving, dynamic, transparent. The soundstage is as large laterally like the XP-7, although not as deep or high. Detail wise, the XP-7 has a liitle better detail and resolution, and Bass-the bass on the RC3 is a little more wooly compared to the XP-7's, but not that much. The XP-7 is also more transparent but I'm not sure its 350 beans more transparent. As far as everything portable in between, forget about it, I'd say.
Incredible $ vs. value here. I think Xin should put this thing into a beautiful aluminum case at least twice as big and double the price.
The main difference in the overall sound as I see it is the sense of ease the XP-7 has over the RC3. I'm not sure if its my imagination but the little thing just seems to need to chug along harder. This might be because it's difficult to imagine such fine sound out of a little plastic box.
One little minus on my version is that it comes with some new switches. A new on/off (very small) and a new volume switch that seems delicate. The toggles for these switches are very thin and seem like they won't last. The new spring loaded volume switch is very intuitive and analog-like in its operation, slide left and sound goes lower; right and it increases.
I noticed today that Xin has yet another upgrade for the SD, something about a different way of doing the A-class biasing to get it even better. EY YAH!
Chinatown in NYC was and probably still is full of groups of old Chinese bachelors hanging in restaurants or sitting out there on stoops. Whenever a shapely or good looking lady would happen by, they would wait until she passed and look at each other and go EY YAH! and depending on intonation she would then be rated and that would fire a debate about whether she deserved that particular intonation or not until the next hottie would pass by, and then the discussion would turn to that one and on and on.
I haven't thought of EY YAH! in a long time, which is obviously an exclamation (in Cantonese) of surprise and delight. Well, I have to tell you, the new SuperDuals are EY YAH! of the Highest Intonation-not coincidentally coming from a Chinese batchelor. If the production versions are as good as the RC3 I have, Xin's going to sell a lot of these.
This one's competition for the XP-7. The RC3 (still a prototype) is the only other amp that I know of that has a similar sound signature to the XP-7. (with 8610 opamps) it is warm, involving, dynamic, transparent. The soundstage is as large laterally like the XP-7, although not as deep or high. Detail wise, the XP-7 has a liitle better detail and resolution, and Bass-the bass on the RC3 is a little more wooly compared to the XP-7's, but not that much. The XP-7 is also more transparent but I'm not sure its 350 beans more transparent. As far as everything portable in between, forget about it, I'd say.
Incredible $ vs. value here. I think Xin should put this thing into a beautiful aluminum case at least twice as big and double the price.
The main difference in the overall sound as I see it is the sense of ease the XP-7 has over the RC3. I'm not sure if its my imagination but the little thing just seems to need to chug along harder. This might be because it's difficult to imagine such fine sound out of a little plastic box.
One little minus on my version is that it comes with some new switches. A new on/off (very small) and a new volume switch that seems delicate. The toggles for these switches are very thin and seem like they won't last. The new spring loaded volume switch is very intuitive and analog-like in its operation, slide left and sound goes lower; right and it increases.
I noticed today that Xin has yet another upgrade for the SD, something about a different way of doing the A-class biasing to get it even better. EY YAH!
