I assume its a similar architecture/chipset as my Virtue Audio Two - and so many other d-amps (mine also runs off a 30v power supply, b/c that’s pretty much the max. voltage you can throw at the chipset …) … and boy, it surely is sweeeet sounding and really well put together.
I have a 24v (well 12+12v) battery between the power supply and the amp, so it can draw really high amps for short peaks … so, very velvety, yet sparkling, punchy and quicksiverish sound …
you should try it
edit to add: just went back to my emails and I bought mine in 2010 - so already 15 years of happy smiley face …
Eh, it’s not a steal, full MSRP is only like $70. I’ve got a pair of PA speakers (Mackie C300 12") that I’m dying to try with a digital amp instead of the rackmount roadcase 40lb+ Ramsa amp I otherwise use.
there is a lot of “fetish-ish” stuff going on in audiophilia … and just like in the sexual context, the fetish while originally a token or placeholder (e.g. high-heels) for the real thing (e.g. intercourse) takes on a life and a dimension of its own.
In audio, the “intercourse” is listening to music in the highest quality possible.
The “fetish” are frequency-sweeps, sound pressure diagrams and all that technical information … and quite often people drool over those “objective measurements” more than they spend listening to music …
Stuff like “I had a 6db hump at 70hz that made for a wooly bass, but since I moved the subwoofer 6” to the left (and buried a dead chicken head at the north wall), that hump disappeared and nicely filled up the little 80hz valley that I had previously and that sucked the life out of the kick drum in the tower-of-power reference disc” …
quite often, there is little music listened to … or its always the same 10 reference tracks …
I managed to set my system up to “good enough” standards, and now spend more time listening and less times on my knees moving around furniture or buying the latest and greatest audiophilia, that will significally up my bass game ;o)
