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Fenriz
88
Aug 25, 2018
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Well, it works and looks nice.
Though honestly, I don't hear any difference compared with my humble laptop audio jack, I'm testing with HD600, HD6XX and HD58X and no, it doesn't do any magic, specially for the HD6XX which is the headphone I was disappointed with. The HD58X still it's the king of fun, HD600 humble but enjoyable and HD6XX still super dark and MEH. And I don't perceive extra detail or something, it seems to be the same. And YES, I'm listening to FLAC's, with Foobar with no WASAPI.
Snake oil? I don't know, I'll give it a lot of use and maybe I'll edit this review later, but overall I'm not impressed, at least it looks good in my desk.
Anyway, like I said before, it works, it produces sound, setup it's really easy. It has a lot of power, at my normal listening volume, I only use up to 9 o'clock at most (or 1/4 of the whole scale). I have a few minor complains though, that's why I only giving it 4 stars: First, the caps that came on my unit are transparent, I was expecting the red ones like in the pictures, I know they're in the back, but still. Second and most importantly, the USB with the driver and manual came DOA, fortunately you can download them from the web but you should have to have the whole package ready to use at once, actually the "USB" it's like half USB, maybe some chip is inside of it but the circuit board it's exposed, the main USB contacts have clear signs of heavy use, and probably they're not doing effective contact and that's why it doesn't work. COME ON Aune, You couldn't include a pristine USB in your $ 200 DAC/Amp?
EDIT: It's plug and play in Linux.
wswsw
8
Aug 26, 2018
Fenriz"I don't hear any difference compared with my humble laptop audio jack" Same for me, even if there's a small difference it's negligible with 6XX.
" the USB with the driver and manual came DOA" Same for me, I bought mine X1s from a different source and it just doesn't work.
" It's plug and play in Linux " It's the same on Windows 10.
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