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Gustard X20U dac
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Posted on February 6, 2016 at 11:38:35 | ||
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Location: Kent Joined: June 1, 2002 |
This is a very good Chinese dac, with dual ESS9018 and a choice of pll clocking, or ESS9018 Asynchromous clocking, Build quality is excellent and SQ is the best I have heard from a Chinese dac. Contributing reasons appear to be: a usb card with Accusilicon XOs in the USB to I2S section. balanced discrete analog stages The remote is one of the easiest I have used and the spdif section is equally good . The best is that it cost me just over $600 in China, instead of the $850 asked for on the web! Mine has ventilation holes on the top plate over the dac/output section instead of a fuly enclosed case as shown on the web. Bargain with correct hdmi input |
RE: Gustard X20U dac, posted on February 6, 2016 at 22:44:54 | |
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Location: San Antonio, Texas Joined: January 24, 2003 |
I guess you havn't seen any of the Audio-GD dacs from China? Alan |