Thanks allhifi very nice of you.
yes 1990, I bought the best I could at the time and never got round to upgrading, at the time Arcam had their black box but I fell for the Cyrus DAC,
During this Christmas I popped into a hifi shop and enjoyed a few systems, they suggested I popped in again and compared my old DAC with new...this I did thinking my trusty DAC would stand up well...sadly my DAC sounded like there was a duvet over each speaker, so flat, dull and uninteresting.
That night the reading began to try and understand a little more, liked what I found re ES9018 chip...
This lead me to your forum where the trail guided me to the x20pro then talk of a 9038, didn't find much on the x22 but the way you were all talking it had to be the one I went for...
ordered last week and delivery date said to be 24.01 to 05.02.18... this morning I had a message for a pre payment to the courier so fingers crossed I get it soon.
thanks again to you all on here passing information as you stopped me saving for the £3000 DAC I heard which is already 4 yrs into sales. I was in china in November so if only I knew then....
Thanks re burn in, I read on here to run it, let it cool then run again which is advice I shall follow for sure
Digital filters is something new to me and I shall have a play. Reading above in the thread the balanced out's seem better so I have ordered some new XLR outs. really looking forward to enjoying some fine music.
DB
yes 1990, I bought the best I could at the time and never got round to upgrading, at the time Arcam had their black box but I fell for the Cyrus DAC,
During this Christmas I popped into a hifi shop and enjoyed a few systems, they suggested I popped in again and compared my old DAC with new...this I did thinking my trusty DAC would stand up well...sadly my DAC sounded like there was a duvet over each speaker, so flat, dull and uninteresting.
That night the reading began to try and understand a little more, liked what I found re ES9018 chip...
This lead me to your forum where the trail guided me to the x20pro then talk of a 9038, didn't find much on the x22 but the way you were all talking it had to be the one I went for...
ordered last week and delivery date said to be 24.01 to 05.02.18... this morning I had a message for a pre payment to the courier so fingers crossed I get it soon.
thanks again to you all on here passing information as you stopped me saving for the £3000 DAC I heard which is already 4 yrs into sales. I was in china in November so if only I knew then....
Thanks re burn in, I read on here to run it, let it cool then run again which is advice I shall follow for sure
Digital filters is something new to me and I shall have a play. Reading above in the thread the balanced out's seem better so I have ordered some new XLR outs. really looking forward to enjoying some fine music.
DB