Wow I am not very active at headfi and I completely lost this announcement.
The way I see this, this seems to be an upgrade replacement of iOne with the zen design language.
I have the original iOne which I completely adore and I find the best value for money audio device ever.
This device seems to follow along these lines. Is not much more expensive and includes the ipower in the price.
OK then, I suggest to people if they have time to read the iOne thread to understand what a device like that can do to your living room entertainment. Is simply revolutionary.
The biggest benefit is on improving substantially the audio movie tv experience.
Spdif from tv goes to iOne spdif input (iOne acts as spdif purifier) output to marantz pm6005 amp with a 40£ rca cable and then to my Tannoy floorstanders. The experience is phenomenal both for music and movies everything that passing through tv.
At some point, I had build a super elaborate but budget friendly system around iOne with an allo usb streamer, tube preamplifier (mullard tubes) connected to more ipower supplies and so forth...
The burr brown dac kept on scaling and scaling on every tweak and further investment I made.
Until I completely dismantled the system because my baby boy grew up and it was certain that will destroy the system in a second...
I have now the iOne in the original box waiting to set up sometime in the future when my kids will grow enough and behave. I have instead the first gen spdif ipurifier which is an amazing device and provides a partial functionality of the iOne albeit for me the most important one.
For almost 3 years I have listen to burr brown through my system so much and I know this signature so well that I am saying if you open my veins you will find burr brown blood....
If this is the product I think it is for 350£ it makes me saying :
Well done ifi audio.
This is the ifi I know and I am proud of...!!!
