It arrived yesterday...and I know its not broken in, a couple hundred hours away from that.
and I know its "stock"
and I know it can be MOD'd to holy hell should I decide to. Lots of room in there.
and I know I can roll the tubes should I feel the need, which i'm sure I will.
I was hopeful that it would be nice sounding. But honestly, I did not think this $400 DAC would best a $2k Toshiba DVD-A player. I had confidence that what I was hearing out of that unit was high end.
wrong again !
the Lite DAC, in its out of the box condition, blows the doors off of my Toshiba.
Sooo much more music ! I had no idea the Toshiba was ommiting so much music. bass responce is sick. Again, now this is an area that I keep thinking my system is doing "right", but the past couple of upgrades have shown me that everything can be improved upon.
Very happy w/this unit. I"m excited to put it up against the Benchmark and whatever else comes along.