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Mine has superficial imperfections. I don't care. You're weird about it.
I examined very carefully shinning a torch onto it. Those lines could be barely seen. However they are not visible to naked eyes. Said that I am very happy with the sound quality of the amp for its neutrality and totally black background. I suggested John, if he ever develops a premium case for this marvel, design it in a way for existing users to upgrade easily. He took the suggestion positively.Thanks for mentioning. Did you or could you look very closely in particular at the front for resemblance of the marks on mine?
It's just the way its molded. You're not going to find anything as good at $100. Keep it, ignore superficial things like that.
I got my Atom few days back and it is flawless cosmetically. Functionality is superb and very clean and able amp for the money. John had been very helpful and included few goodies with it. I am waiting for Topping D5oS to be coupled with it.
Thanks, guys!
You are correct. The Atom's preamp is not good. I am using Burson Fun as preamp and it is spectacular but the preamp of the Atom does not give remarkable mids or sufficient bass, sadly. I use the Atom as headphone amp only. You have two other options. To use a dedicated, preamp like Shiit Saga or to install Equilizer APO and to increase or decrease certain frequencies such as the bass and or others system wide.Ok. So I know I'm late to this game but got the atom delivered today. For the most part I'm very happy with it... but ... how long did you guys typically burn it in for the bass to fill up?
I also only have 2hrs on it. Reason I ask is I used to run my cayin n5ii line out(no eq) into my speaker amp. Now I run it into the atom and the atom feeds the speaker amp. I have definitely lost some bass. I can easily go back and forth between the connections to compare and the n5ii is not a bass heavy dap.
You are correct. The Atom's preamp is not good. I am using Burson Fun as preamp and it is spectacular but the preamp of the Atom does not give remarkable mids or sufficient bass, sadly. I use the Atom as headphone amp only. You have two other options. To use a dedicated, preamp like Shiit Saga or to install Equilizer APO and to increase or decrease certain frequencies such as the bass and or others system wide.
.Thank you for the quick and to the point response. Decisions. I need more than one input and the burson fun doesn't have that, if I remember correctly.
I run a Topping D50s into the Atom. The D50(s) can operate as preamp and it provides USB coax and optical inputs. I too only use the Atom as headphone Amp but this might work for you and the D50 is a stellar DAC. Actually have 2 of them, one of which is at the the center of my living room AV setup feeding into a B&O SystemThank you for the quick and to the point response. Decisions. I need more than one input and the burson fun doesn't have that, if I remember correctly.