Today's price at Amazon: $298.67 with Prime (+ tax where charged), sold by Amazon themselves - so this one is a bust for MassDrop.... won't stop me from watching out for deals on MD though! Nice to see the MSRP corrected.
Just my 2 penneth: Bearing in mind this is 2 years+ old and the market for DACs is fierce, am thinking this needs to be at the $200 mark to bring in some real business. Love the compact form factor but my suspicion is that the balanced outputs won't be used by most, with DSD being the hot item everyone wants to tinker with. Too bad the 101(IIRC) doesn't do DSD.
Richy_DingoThat's funny - I picked one of these up since it was basically the first product that could do some input switching(including a DAC) and volume control for a balanced output, for less than $1K.
But I agree; most here find this for use as their headphone DAC/amp combo I suspect.
Just my 2 penneth: Bearing in mind this is 2 years+ old and the market for DACs is fierce, am thinking this needs to be at the $200 mark to bring in some real business. Love the compact form factor but my suspicion is that the balanced outputs won't be used by most, with DSD being the hot item everyone wants to tinker with. Too bad the 101(IIRC) doesn't do DSD.