I actually do have one of these shipping out my way
I know ATOM get's a lot of praise here but I find it lacks power for my older harder to drive Planarmagnetics, 2012 PreFazor LCD 2 and HE 560 and subjectively it sounds "soft" with those
Anyways moving past that I appreciate the slightly better THD and overall performance of this unit and the addition power output over ATOM. I'll have a subjective review for those interested and
@SMSL-Mandy &
@SMSL_Liu having an amp utilize a Dual Mono configuration with XLR Inputs is really pretty awesome, with what little I know about balanced TRUE Balanced Topography is quite complex [and NOT cheap to design/build]. Something to do with grounds? I dunno I'm sure
@fdg and
@solderdude have more information on this and having heard a few "truly balanced" solid states I can certainly say it's something I'd like to own
But my point here is a Dual Mono amp running the THX 888 as cleanly as this unit does is something to be excited about. An yea I'll be doing some subjective comparisons to ATOM as soon as mine arrives
Still again
@SMSL-Mandy &
@SMSL_Liu I do appreciate the work your company has put in to bring this kind of performance into the market at such an aggressive price [and for having unit's on hand and ready to ship out!]
The main disadvantage is channel imbalance for attenuation greater than 30dB. It is definitely a problem for IEMs.
Another disadvantage, not related to this, is that we won't see any performance measurements taking into account the entire audio bandwidth (we have just the sinad at 1kHz and IMD vs level).
My suggestion is not to buy it.
Why would you need anything more than Atom for IEMS? Also yea a high output dual mono amp likely isn't the best choice for your super sensitive In Ear Monitors... still I applaud those of you who want the best output for your in ear. Can't say I understand why you'd go IEM over Fullsize Headphone but live and let live!