Price drop on Amazon from all suppliers, 15% this week—now $509.99. Maybe a Black Friday thing, maybe permanent, I don't know. I ordered and received one last week, $599.99, happened to look last night and saw the drop. I ordered another, will send this one back when I get it (I chatted with Amazon to see if there was a better way to get the new price, they said no, just send it back for refund—actually have till the end of January for returns, free shipping). $98.55 difference for me with California tax.
Besides being very happy with the sound, having a knob right in front of me is extremely useful. Previously, when I wanted to listen to high quality audio, I'd switch audio (2019 Mac Pro) to my digital mixer and studio monitor speakers via digital interface, but that system is behind me (need to turn around for serious listening). Recently, I bought a pair of iLoud MTMs as alternate, small speaker monitoring and to have in front of me at the computer display (XDR). Initially, I was feeding these from the mixer as well, but soon decided to try a DAC, and found this one. It's such a big improvement in convenience, for the MTMs and headphones, which I also used to run from the mixer.
Besides being very happy with the sound, having a knob right in front of me is extremely useful. Previously, when I wanted to listen to high quality audio, I'd switch audio (2019 Mac Pro) to my digital mixer and studio monitor speakers via digital interface, but that system is behind me (need to turn around for serious listening). Recently, I bought a pair of iLoud MTMs as alternate, small speaker monitoring and to have in front of me at the computer display (XDR). Initially, I was feeding these from the mixer as well, but soon decided to try a DAC, and found this one. It's such a big improvement in convenience, for the MTMs and headphones, which I also used to run from the mixer.