Popular Post Gus141 Posted November 15, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2019 Great review. I have an ADI-2 DAC and I agree with your assessment. I will say that any shortcomings of this DAC are easily forgotten if you rely on some of the impressive DSP software engineering in this product. For example, I have Sony MDR-Z1R headphones which famously suffer in some areas of its frequency response due to some poor design decisions, but they are nearly perfect with some parametric EQ. I also have some programmed “setups” for custom bass/treble tone adjustments for other cans, adaptive loudness for low-level listening, and don’t forget the huge database of IR commands, that any universal remote can support, to control almost every function of the DAC to include on-the-fly selection of DA filter or Crossfeed algorithm (works great with the Harmony Elite remote). I don’t have very demanding or inefficient cans, so the headphone amp is more than adequate for my needs and I therefore can’t comment on it’s shortcomings. My most demanding cans (the aforementioned Z1Rs at 64 Ohms) are driven in low-power mode and I never go higher than -20dB. For my very efficient cans or very noise sensitive IEMS, the IEM output of the DAC has been very adequate (I never go above -10bB) and noise is inaudible at any volume. Thanks for a great review. Reviews like yours and @austinpop (like the recent dCS Bartok review) are a joy to read. I do follow ASR, I do appreciate objective measurements, but I also love a healthy combination of subjective and objective analysis. Cheers. Josh Mound, Uncoy and Mark Dirac 3 Link to comment
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