New Emotiva DAC, how will it test?

[Purité Audio]

Were you using a ‘lively’ dac before?
Keith

 

[DPavs]

If it sounds decent at all, there is a big plus side. Emotiva offers a 5 year transferable warranty from a company you can actually get a response from and will honor their warranty. I like the Toppings and SMSL's of the world but reliability and getting service on them can be a horrible if not impossible process. Those factors are keeping me from exploring any higher end options from these type of options. From various sites it seems like there are too many failures within 2 years and little or no post sales support from them. This seems to be true save for if you purchase from a few companies like APOS who provide their own 1 year warranty service and seem to be very responsive and reliable in this regards.

It would be nice though to see the actual test measurements on this one.

 

[Overseas]

You said you rely on MEASURED specs and listening. Why, don't you trust the brand? If measured and they lie, would you buy?