Divotdog
"I can fix it Grampa"
This just arrived today, it was well packed and showed up on my doorstep within three days of placing my order. First impressions upon opening the box were that it is a well built, relatively heavy and very nice looking piece of equipment; this one came with the upgraded Vintage GE tube.
Listening impressions, this is my first DAC so I really have nothing to compare it to other than my vinyl front end, right now it is on my garage system that consists of My PC to an Airport Express, Toslink cable to the Maverick Audio DAC, Adcom 555 II preamp, and Adcom 535 II amp to Klipsch LaScala speakers.
Right out of the box when I initially fired it up I thought that I may have just made a $270 mistake, the sound was thin and no better than the AE by itself or any budget CD player, fortunately I had read that some other users had run into this, so I just dropped the volume and sent it a signal for a couple of hours, I came back out to the garage and spent a little bit more time with it and it had improved significantly, we are at about ten hours on it now and it has a nice full sound and a very large soundstage and it continues to improve each time I come back to it, at this point it is very comparable to my garage table which is a Thorens TD 150 with a ProJect arm and an AT 440 Mla cart, we will give this a few more days and revisit it with a little bit more in depth A/B comparisons.
Listening impressions, this is my first DAC so I really have nothing to compare it to other than my vinyl front end, right now it is on my garage system that consists of My PC to an Airport Express, Toslink cable to the Maverick Audio DAC, Adcom 555 II preamp, and Adcom 535 II amp to Klipsch LaScala speakers.
Right out of the box when I initially fired it up I thought that I may have just made a $270 mistake, the sound was thin and no better than the AE by itself or any budget CD player, fortunately I had read that some other users had run into this, so I just dropped the volume and sent it a signal for a couple of hours, I came back out to the garage and spent a little bit more time with it and it had improved significantly, we are at about ten hours on it now and it has a nice full sound and a very large soundstage and it continues to improve each time I come back to it, at this point it is very comparable to my garage table which is a Thorens TD 150 with a ProJect arm and an AT 440 Mla cart, we will give this a few more days and revisit it with a little bit more in depth A/B comparisons.