USB Dac/amplifier

[Covenant]

I will be comparing it to my Beresford Caimen with about £200 of mods and a linear power supply. Should be interesting.....

[pete_mac]

Excellent. I'll be comparing against my audio-gd Reference 5 which is fed by an Empirical Audio Synchro Mesh with a superteddyreg'd linear PSU. If the little Hifimediy DAC can get close, I will be mightily impressed.

I think it will be very interesting to see if this little box can improve over the onboard SB Touch DAC too.

[Covenant]

Got mine today. It's a tiny box, smaller than a matchbox. I have only tried it connected to my computer and using my planar magnetic headphones. SQ is fine but the volume level is low, my headphones need a bit of power so I will be sticking with a valve hp amp.
Need the adapter next so I can try it in my main rig.

[pete_mac]

Mine arrived last week! It really is quite tiny. So far I'm using it in my PC rig (restored Sansui AU-317 amp and Usher S520 speakers) and it sounds very nice indeed. For $50 it's a steal!

Once it has some mileage under its belt I'll drag it outside to my main rig and will configure my SB Touch to enable the USB output functionality via the EDO applet.

[NRG]

Will be interesting to read what you guys think of it, the only concern is the up-sampling it seems to do on lower res feeds...not sure if that can be defeated in any way.