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Kelvinwsy
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Mar 13, 2019
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The unit is of very high quality construction. Solid build with an well thought out separate sub-enclosure for the Power Supply for the DAC. The unit comes with a machined aluminium control but the key to remove the battery is of plastic, with 2 teeth protrusions to engage the 2 slots in the battery compartment cover. The tips of the protrusions already show some wear. It is quite intuitive to cycle through the functions of the DAC listed in the remote. There are multiple input options, cut-off filter frequency options for PCM and DSD, clock asynchronous and synchronous modes. Most unusual are the 9 Sound Output modes through the DSP algorithm built into the DAC - There are 3 flavors each for Rich, Crystal, and Tube. The Default is Standard which bypasses the DSP function. It is very interesting to try the various Sound Output Modes. The effect of the Sound depends on your system synergy with your other components. A general comment is that the "ESS Sound" can be modified using the output modes. I chose the Tube Modes which makes the Sound Output more mellow. The DAC has very high specifications and the various Filter options makes many combinations possible: Linear, Slow / Fast roll over/Apodizing. Output via RCA is 2.2 V and XLR 4.6 V - stronger than normal. It is possible to drive a set of Headphones using a Twin XLR or RCA wire harness and setting the Volume control to variable. Not the best Headphone amplifier money can buy but it is certainly more powerful than many HP amps out there in the audiophile market. Overall a very good buy.
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