I wanted the 'end game' so I don't buy any more audio equipment; later this year I plan on picking up 2 Hsu research subwoofers and running them on the unbalanced outputs of the D1 and keep the emotiva's on the balanced outputs. Hopefully that's the end of my stereo system ;)
@Hemi-Demon...
It sounds pretty good to me, I had it set up with a pair of powered monitors (emotiva stealth 8). But it doest sound any different to the Khadas tone board, just looks aesthetically more pleasing in my living room.
I was actually thinking of running a subwoofer from the unbalanced outputs and the balanced go out to powered speakers. That's a good compromise to get a 2.1 out of a dac with both balanced & unbalanced outputs.
Couldn't a crossfeed be modded in foobar2000 for any headset to simulate speaker audio space? Like a meier crossfeed?
http://www.meier-audio.homepage.t-online.de/crossfeed.htm
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But this is a selfish request, I am hoping someone lends this dac/amp to @amirm for review ;)
Still, if you offer the option of both unbalanced and balanced, both should be somewhat comparable. Especially at the level/price they are marketing at.
Though now I'm curious, looks like they are releasing a SMSL VMV P1 headphone dac/amp based on the D1. Maybe it will correct the issues in...