Oh man, I'm strangely feeling some pain here, having read how fondly you have written about that Orphy Bird combo...Yes I caved in. I sold my Traillii + Orphy combo so I had some “extra” cash lying around
Whether I’ll keep it in the long run I don’t know , I have to hear it though.
After all these years man, I think it is suffice to say that we are “Enthusiastically spending our Money” unrelated to music
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What? You bought your original Traillii, sold it, bought a custom Traillii and now sold it, too?Yes I caved in. I sold my Traillii + Orphy combo so I had some “extra” cash lying around
Whether I’ll keep it in the long run I don’t know , I have to hear it though.
10 out of 50. This means there are 4 times as many head-fi crazies out there somewhere! Suddenly I don’t feel so awkward hanging out here haha!
Beside ERO Capacitors which is Films capacitors. There appears to be Polymer or Film capacitors of other brand at the first stage of the power supply VS the SS is having one single Stage of Coupling. There also appears to have the output capacitors to be with modern ERO film caps (Vishay) and other film caps VS the SS which utilize Phillips Electrolytic
from many experiences passing down and even within the engineers themselves, film capacitors are the real capacitors without cheating, and also coincidentally is the best one for sound performances
So from this point on, allow me to skip the “neither deny nor confirm” status. Technically the Titanium has a better build and hence it is an upgrade under my view. Why have I been waiting for titanium all this time ?
Subjective performances will need to have it at my hands first
Finally, gave into the rabbit's hole once again.
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Yes, one could do that if they are skillful enough as I mentioned. If Ibasso is willing to sell the Titanium Amp module. So you have 2 big factors in placeAlso, given how it is connected internally, you can probably swap out the amp modules from SS to Ti.
I would expect a noticeable tonal difference given the significant changes in the caps. It depends on which way iBasso went...
Yes, one could do that if they are skillful enough as I mentioned. If Ibasso is willing to sell the Titanium Amp module. So you have 2 big factors in place
But then again, as I said, nothing stopping anyone from replicating the Titanium Amp sections
Hell, I think the amp module itself alone is easily $500-$700 increased. I don’t even know how much the amp module is by itself. Then the Titanium as a chassis is possibly another $800-900
All I know is iBasso tends to produce excellent SQ at their price points, so if they’re charging $3300 USD for something.. I am expecting it to be pretty… damn… good. 
