Crazy*Carl
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If thats possible, sure?
If not, I guess someone can start a new thread.
If not, I guess someone can start a new thread.
I believe the sparrow uses usb2706 like the FUN. It certainly beats the audio-gd compass . And it gives me emotions of denial when my ears tell me the sparrow puts up a good fight against my dac19mk3+phoenix in terms of speed, macrodetails and size of ambience, but when I concentrate my attention on soundstage depth, microscopic nuances, and shades/tones of decay and emotional variety, I can tell the dac19mk3 (with rca connection, not acss connection) does better overall, but I don't know if it could justify the price increase.
If you've never been sensitized to small nuances and soundstage decay/echoes, you will think the sparrow has no apparent weaknesses, and that it is strong on many points, and the slightly energetic sound signature I noted before is just a product of the slight shortcomings of the sparrow, and you wouldn't likely notice it. This is with ~75 hours of my own burn-in time on top of factory burn-in time, I'm afraid of it improving with more burn-in and maybe do nuances nearly the same level as dac19mk3 . Luckily I'm preparing myself by buying a dac9mk3 but I highly suspect my headphones and transport and albums won't be on the same level as dac9mk3+phoenix, maybe I should just live with the sparrow ..
I believe the sparrow uses usb2706 like the FUN. It certainly beats the audio-gd compass . And it gives me emotions of denial when my ears tell me the sparrow puts up a good fight against my dac19mk3+phoenix in terms of speed, macrodetails and size of ambience, but when I concentrate my attention on soundstage depth, microscopic nuances, and shades/tones of decay and emotional variety, I can tell the dac19mk3 (with rca connection, not acss connection) does better overall, but I don't know if it could justify the price increase.
If you've never been sensitized to extremely fast nuances (especially in bass) and soundstage decay/echoes, you will think the sparrow has no apparent weaknesses, and that it is strong on many points. And I think the slightly energetic sound signature I noted before is just a product of the dac19mk3's better instrument decay. This is with ~75 hours of my own burn-in time on top of factory burn-in time, I'm afraid of it improving with more burn-in and maybe do nuances nearly the same level as dac19mk3 . Luckily I'm preparing myself by buying a dac9mk3 but I highly suspect my headphones and transport and albums won't be on the same level as dac9mk3+phoenix, maybe I should just sell everything and get a sparrow for all my needs .
Btw I dunno if I should post this in other audio-gd threads, but dac9mk3 is currently discounted on audio-gd.com, it is to be discontinued and this is the last batch. Will delete this last sentence when I see it is no longer on sale.
The A-GD website is down presently. What is the DAC 8 going for? That should be a great deal for sme folks.
They just changed the format of their site, google audio-gd site again and you will see they changed stuff around a bit.
I just got my Sparrow in the mail, first impressions :
After being ampless for a week or so on my D-2000s, the sparrow sounds much more articulate, detailed, and has a much greater sense of soundstage compared to amp-less. Compared to my EF2, it doesn't have the 'tube sound' that the EF2 had, which IMO makes the Sparrow even better. It also just feels like its not having any trouble amping what I'm listening too, and looks and feels like a very well made product.
The only 2 things I don't like about it so far is that the input switch says 1, 2 and 3, not USB, Coax, and Optical. It's kinda vague but I'll figure it out soon. My second gripe is that the power switch is on the back (Do I have to regularly turn this unit on and off like my old tube amp? Or can I just leave it on all the time?)