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JaggiIf this was wide, flat and flush with the THX 789, I would have purchased both for my office. Its current footprint matches better with an SMSL SAP-9 for a more compact and much cheaper desktop setup, where criticality in listening is not needed. You would loose quite a bit of power and who knows what other audio qualities, but in balanced mode it should be good enough for an office at lower volumes on mid tier phones like the HE4XX or HD58X, and you could put the savings to better headphones, upgraded cables, a battery pack for portable use, a dap, this DAC....
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> -How it looks on top of our THX or LCX amps
It would have looked a lot nicer if you'd gone with an (admittedly, much larger) matching chassis!
> -All the stuff crammed into that back panel…making the dual 3-pin XLR fit!
Hmm, I dislike the way everything had to be shoehorned in, with no room available for stereo RCA plugs on the unbalanced output and minimal separation between sockets to allow for larger plugs (and fingers!). After all, it's not meant to be a portable solution.
And while I'm happy to see the coax input, I would have liked an optical input too. Was that left out for reasons of panel space, or to save costs?
> -USB 2.0 to support more filetypes, very high resolution
Well yeah I guess, but seriously how many USB DACs don't offer USB 2.0 support these days?
I would have loved a nice display panel on the front so you know exactly what sort of signal the unit is receiving, and what it's doing with it.
And of course the question of single/dual DAC chips, how was the balanced signal implemented and what is the effect of this on the quality of the output?
I realise that addressing all of these suggestions would have resulted in a unit with a significantly higher price tag, but I suspect a higher price that a lot of owners of "our THX or LCX amps" would have been happy to pay :)