This is truly helpful, I'm interested in the DXII, mostly because of its design. It looks gorgeous. Please share more about DXII with the stock cable.
Oh boy. I’m bad that way. I’m in the habit, in dx2 case largely unwarranted, of casting aside stock cables.
However, Dx2 stock cable is very nice, 8 wire, I believe, BUT…3.5 plug.
Which is the main reason I’ve ignored it.
Also, of the two other DDs I have, it seems to benefit least from higher gain, medium to high, for instance, ie sounds realized at med gain which, in the case of KMax, may still be more power than many daps.
Finally, stock cable I think is straight copper. The PW 7pipe is the highest copper-content cable I put on it which, as noted, tuned Dx2 most robustly.
This particular synergy may lead people to pigeonhole Dx2 as representative of a signature that it is, in fact, not limited to.
Unfortunately I’m away from home and can’t check for another few weeks.
Cheers