Anyone try this? Yinlumei S2, using AK4497 decoding chip

[Mike Arnopol]

looked pretty cool. I'm a bit new to this . I am waiting for a Tansio TSMR3 Pro as well as a Monoprice M300. I'm a jazz bassist who has retired from 30 years of worldwide touring. I now have a business designing and building very high quality speaker cabinets for bass players. I listen to music while I'm working and prefer IEM's. I'm trying to find a great sounding DAC to use while I'm working. I initially was looking at the E1DA products but was advised that they might not be the best choice for IEM's---especially the very high efficiency Tansio. The Yinlumei looked like it might be a great solution. Any experience with it?

 

[IVX]

Yes, as I know it's quite good, however, its output power also not small. You can find a short review on head-fi.org

 

[Mike Arnopol]

Thanks, Ivan
I would be using it to power a Tansio Mirai TSMR 3 Pro (very efficient) and a Monoprice M300 Planar. Just got the M300. It could be very nice with EQ. I'm wondering if I add parametric to the UAPP if that might do it? I was considering the 9038s as well. It seems that, while it had available EQ that the Powerdac might be too noisy with the Tansio.

 

[Hisma]

I own this dac. Don't think there's many westerners that own it as it's near impossible to acquire outside of China (unless you want to pay a $100 markup on ebay).

Here's pictures of the internals of this dac. It's held together by 4 torx screws, easy to disassemble.

AK4497EQ DAC, OBravo SA9227 USB bridge prominently on display

pretty sorry pic of the opposite side. Sorry for the blurriness. But just to give you all an idea of what's crammed on the board.

Close-up of some of interesting ICs. OPA1612 on the right (I think) and on the left, a mystery IC that has the company logo printed on it. If anyone has any ideas on what it is I'd be curious.

Sounds good tho it has some really odd/frustrating volume stepping.

 

[jameswilson]

I went looking for this the other day, as it was available on the Shenzen audio (Linsoul) website about a month ago... Apparently, the S2 is no longer a thing. They now have the S3, which looks to be about 2x the size of the S2... and features a balanced connector as well as single-ended.

Just thought I'd share in case someone else goes looking for it.

 

[RayDunzl]

I'm a jazz bassist who has retired from 30 years of worldwide touring.

Welcome aboard...

I have you in my rack...

 

[tential]

I went looking for this the other day, as it was available on the Shenzen audio (Linsoul) website about a month ago... Apparently, the S2 is no longer a thing. They now have the S3, which looks to be about 2x the size of the S2... and features a balanced connector as well as single-ended.

Just thought I'd share in case someone else goes looking for it.

I want to see tests for the s3, M400, and the a2 dap.

One can dream.

 

[jameswilson]

I want to see tests for the s3, M400, and the a2 dap.

One can dream.

M400 has been tested on here by Amir

 

[tential]

M400 has been tested on here by Amir

Different m400.

 

[Veri]

Different m400.

This, then? https://www.linsoul.com/products/yinlvmei-m400

 

[tential]

This, then? https://www.linsoul.com/products/yinlvmei-m400

You got it