Happy D50 owner here and really excited about this. Could be the logical upgrade for me. Not that I find fault with how the D50 sounds, but balanced outputs and better (anticipated) measurements may be enough reasons to move up.
I just hope that the price is closer to $600 than $800. This would put it at the clip level of how much I am willing to spend for a DAC (the Chord Qutest, Gustard X26 and SMSL D1 will remain to be mere fantasies for me).
Also fingers crossed that there’ll be no bugs. Which means I have to wait for Amirm’s review and reports from early adapters. Which means this would likely be a Christmas gift for myself.
P.S. Seems the DAC race is so real, both for chips and products. Loose analogy, but it reminds me of the camera megapixel and high ISO noise race (more recently sensor size too) as well as the smartphone race. Heck it even reminds me of the CD player bits and oversampling race of yore, 16-4x, 18-8x, Bitstream etc.