emilsoft
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Call me skeptical. It's 50% more expensive than the iDSD Black Label and Signature, is the same size, uses the same DAC chip, and lacks a number of features that the others have, such as XBass/3D and analog input. I own a Black Label, and while the output wasn't the absolute cleanest, it was my workhorse for years. I'll pass on this one.
I've been a loyal ifi customer - purchasing the xDSD, ifi nano black, ican se, iphono 2, iusb 3 - all those products were relatively good value to sound performance.. what I would have liked to see are timely upgrades/replacements to those whilst retaining the similar price given technological advances, I would have been happy to keep upgrading.. but I don't fancy paying large price hikes given that technology improves over time. Similar analogy to TVs I guess, nowadays for the same cost as 5 years ago I can upgrade to a much superior TV as technology/rd moves forward. Just feels ifi are taking me for a bit of a ride - I expect better sound quality for the same price to what I've paid 5 years ago.
ifi have lost me as a customer, I will not be upgrading their products anymore - they are not competitive as they were 5 years ago.
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