After my experience so far, I would never call the Mimby 'dark', as such, though I understand the intention, what it is
not is glarey, edgy, hyper-detailed, fatiguing and leading-edge focused as are so many of the modern DACs. Certainly not with the Magni 3, natural detail galore and life-like expression it certainly
does have and in fact, with the set-up I have here, HD540 Ref1s etc, I am calling it for the most 'analogue' and alive sounding gear in the best possible ways I've ever owned in over 40 years .. without the noise!
I'm sure there are greater heights to be reached, but even at many times this price? As an
overall musical experience, I've heard gear that costs literally hundreds of times more in dollar terms (in some cases thousands of $$ more!) that cannot do what I'm listening to in here and now!