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Thanks cheaphifi. Have you heard the maverick or caiman? The maverick is getting rave reviews and is alot cheaper than the FUN. Do you think the increase in sound quality with the FUN is significant over the maverick?
I have read few review about the Beresford Caiman, it's described like an "Must Buy" :
- Great DAC very detailled, sound not harsh, well defined and controlled bass and very good medium and high and an excellent soundstaging and instrument separation.
At start i was interested about the Maverick D1 but i want a DAC which work "out of the box", I'm sure there are people here who can mod an Maverick extremely well and they manage to get an excellent sound with this piece of hardware, but i think a "Stock unit" Maverick D1 isn't a great deal, it's described as harsh and don't fit with "bright" headphones, and i don't like the "tube buffer" principe, it's not coloring the sound "sound tubey" it just add some % in the THD => Gadget.
I think for example an Audio-GD FUN is a more serious option, but i have not listened it, just rode a bunch of review about it, and i think it's a good value DAC. If you want to know about my rig, i'm currenly using an Audio-GD DAC-19 DSP (Mk-IV) and a pair of Active Bookshelf Monitor : Swan M200 MkIII and i'm very, very, very satisfied about the sound gently blowed by this "Music Pack" (just hesitating between "Amazing", "Wow" and "Incredible" to describe the sound
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You can't go wrong with Audio-GD DAC-19 DSP but it's more expensive, i know an other DAC which worth the price but it's not on the Warm side, it's the Yulong Dah1 MkII : Good Dynamic, Very detailled, a little bright but pleasant sound. But this DAC have some "fiability issues" if you go with a good unit you'll be very satisfied with it, but if you are unlucky you'll get an "electrical interference amplifier" with sometimes let you listen some music (lol).
