Jazz
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I got one on sale late 2021 holidays. I have to say, it is going back. Just too harsh. Even running my normally quite warm and smooth AKM DAC to analog. Harsh. The internal Cirrus Logic DAC is warmer but also duller. If it was all I had or heard in DACs, it would be great! But, amps and DACs can be warm and lively but not be harsh. This was just harsh. I tested an Echo Link a few years ago on a Yamaha amp and it sounded similar with the internal DAC — good, even great for 95% of humans — but with the non Amazon amp, playing lossless, it sounded fantastic. But, it was just an Echo with more connections at that point. I ended up returning that too.