hkgxt2002 寫:Little newbie pass by to try answering some questions for AZ:
In Sabre's Line-up, ESS dac chip from High to Low End should be sequenced at 9018>9016>9023
If you are a hardware geek, you should probably go for 9018's product such as mainland's Matrix X-sabre or Yulong da-8 etc,
But as an ATH fans, you should know that ATH's headphones really rely on combinations to get the "right sound" other than hyper
spec machine
Personally also agrees that Japanese machines can "match" the sound with ATH more often, Personally got a really hard way in finding the match "western" dac/amp for ath headphones
In this case, i guess you can take AZ's recommendation for U-05
PS) U-05 is currently using 2 ESS9016 chips to perform balanced input and decoding, and for pioneer other "top of the notch av amp or av dac is also using the same set up, so i guess it wont be so bad.
Your answer has helped me in deciding a choice. Actually, I had been doubting with something between spec and the true value of the product, but now this problem had been solved. So, I will pick U-05 for my DAC
I am building a system with a laptop as playback and U-05 as DAC. If i use USB port to input, it will be ok, isn't it?
