raoultrifan
Headphoneus Supremus
Hope they fix the noise issues with sensitive iems, and also the sound mirroring issue that is affecting some of the new Fun amps.
Is this replacing the conductor series? I would be nice if they could send a test unit to a reviewer, before the pre-order pricing is over, due to some of the issues with the newer units.
It was an incompatibility with IEMs on the V1.6 of PLAY, but with V2.1 and forward there was no audible noise on IEMs, at least not on my 16 Ohms/100dB SPL IEMs. Also, my FUN had no noise issue with none of my cans.
I don't think this is a Conductor replacement, but I'm sure it will sound very good. After all, the output stage would be similar with Conductor, same output transistors and Class-A, just less output power. Also, today's DAC chips are measuring so well that differences are barely to none audible by most "humans", at least if impulse response looks about the same (similar roll-off filters).
The website is odd, as I can't figure why the DAC/pre SWING (retail $699) is more expensive than the DAC/AMP/pre PlayMate (retail $649)?
Does the Swing have the 9038 pro inside or something?
I hope Burson has a rep that give some details before the pre order sale ends.
From my understandgin 4 x dual opamps should be inside PLAYMATE and 2 x duals + 2 x singls inside SWING; you could just purchase the basic version and add the opamps in the same basket if this makes it cheaper. BTW, why are you looking to that price column anyway? I was always looking to the PRE-ORDER PRICE column which is 319 USD for any of the two units. Unless you want to buy V6 opamps and that makes it 519 USD for PLAYMATE vs 599 USD for SWING.
It's clearly a different schematic inside and one more PSU inside: 6 MCPS inside SWING instead of 5 MCPS for the PLAYMATE. Also, additional digital inputs means additional production costs for sure...so, I'm curious how the 2 boards look like, then it should be easy to spot and compare the differences later.That still means there must be something inside the Swing that allow for the equal retail cost, even though it does NOT have the amp included.