ford2
Headphoneus Supremus
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Well I just got mine along with the DAC,extremely well built and finished,a pleasure to look at.
After a couple hours of feeding cables here and there and making up a couple short XLR's all was ready for a quick test.
Spdif output is from RME digi PST card into the dac and into amp balanced,and an analogue signal from same card into amp for the trs output.
Testing done with Headphile modified CD3000 with apuresound cable[balanced],just had to solder a 4 pin xlr on the end.[apuresound solder the shielding onto pin 1 on the 3 pin plugs,so I soldered it to earth on the 4 pin].
In balanced mode and SE [with adapter] this amp has a wonderful clear dynamic sound and this straight out of the box.But it is in balanced mode that it shines,the detail/clarity/dynamics are outstanding.If I had to pick one point its the clarity, everything seems so clean and detailed,the CD3000's have never sounded this good.
The only problem is you tend to turn the volume up to much,but I can live with it.
Have only listened for an hour or so to make sure all was working so its only a quick impression and with low impedance phones,another nice point is that its not trying to act as a room heater as well as an amp.
All up for a total cost of $742us including postage for the dac and the balanced amp this is a no brainer,Little Dot are a well established company now and there gear just keeps getting better,this combination could sell in the $1000 + bracket and still be a bargain.
Over the next few days will run it with stock CD3000 and balanced SA5000,do not have any high impedance phones to test it with,so will leave that to others.
All up a very happy camper.
After a couple hours of feeding cables here and there and making up a couple short XLR's all was ready for a quick test.
Spdif output is from RME digi PST card into the dac and into amp balanced,and an analogue signal from same card into amp for the trs output.
Testing done with Headphile modified CD3000 with apuresound cable[balanced],just had to solder a 4 pin xlr on the end.[apuresound solder the shielding onto pin 1 on the 3 pin plugs,so I soldered it to earth on the 4 pin].
In balanced mode and SE [with adapter] this amp has a wonderful clear dynamic sound and this straight out of the box.But it is in balanced mode that it shines,the detail/clarity/dynamics are outstanding.If I had to pick one point its the clarity, everything seems so clean and detailed,the CD3000's have never sounded this good.
The only problem is you tend to turn the volume up to much,but I can live with it.
Have only listened for an hour or so to make sure all was working so its only a quick impression and with low impedance phones,another nice point is that its not trying to act as a room heater as well as an amp.
All up for a total cost of $742us including postage for the dac and the balanced amp this is a no brainer,Little Dot are a well established company now and there gear just keeps getting better,this combination could sell in the $1000 + bracket and still be a bargain.
Over the next few days will run it with stock CD3000 and balanced SA5000,do not have any high impedance phones to test it with,so will leave that to others.
All up a very happy camper.