ecwl
500+ Head-Fier
I haven’t had the opportunity to hear the Anni. But to me, the strangest thing about it is that it clips at 2V and most Chord DAC’s DAC mode is 3V. So the Anni manual tells you to set the Qutest to 2V output. But it doesn’t tell you to set DAVE to -7dB in pre-amp mode or what color to set your Mojo 1 to (green I’m guessing, just like Qutest). My guess is that they’re expecting Anni to be paired with non-Chord DACs? Not sureI had the same experience. The best sound I get is straight out of the Dave. And I use Stealths and the Heddphone which are both power hungry. I'm also not a blind Chord fanboy because the amp I tried was the Chord Anni and I truly hated how it sounds.