I saw that but I am frankly impatient and suck at writing reviews.

Dew eet! I'll write the review for you!

The Neko is a nice DAC. I think Wes offers a 30 day money back guarantee. Buy it, use it ...well, you get the idea.

Since we are talking about DACs, I have been thinking of upgrading the the Pico DAC on my desktop rig (Mac Mini -> Pico DAC -> GS-1. It will need to have a small footprint. I have been going back and forth between the two. Has anyone heard all three? Rega, Neko, Pico? Probably not but I thought I would give it a go.

Edit: Oops, I guess the last post in this thread was in January... maybe I should have posted elsewhere.

Shelly, do you have (or did you have at some point) an Electrocompaniet ECD-1?

I do still have the ECD-1. The problem is that it is hooked up to the WA5LE and KGSS and is about 10 feet from my desk where I have the GS-1. (I usually don't leave this setup plugged in because of the lightning storms here.)

I think I will do the rational thing and sign up for the loaner program (assuming it is not too late).

Thinking about downsizing and going the Wireless streamer to dac route. Wondering if anyone had other comments to add on SQ as functionally being a cheap balanced dac is pretty much what I am looking for.

Threadjack...

Eastern Electric Announces MiniMax DAC Plus Update http://ow.ly/1tUTXe

Depending on price, this could be interesting. Maybe knock existing model cheaper.

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Getting USB DAC urges again. Some cool-looking stuff on the way.

http://www.playbackdesigns.com/mpd3.html

http://www.meitner.com/beta/index.html

http://resonessencelabs.com/

(PS: That last one, no idea if they're blowing smoke or not about their unit, but that's a fucking user manual right there. At least 30 pages of measurements and various digressions on audio engineering theory and practice.)

Yes. But I've had it for, like, ages and the harmonicules are almost all used up.

What does this do to your urges?

Yes. But I've had it for, like, ages and the harmonicules are almost all used up.

Dibs! (If I can afford it, which I probably can't.) So I should probably just say, "want."

That $4K Invicta Sabre DAC is impressive but their comparing it

in some odd way to a 1935 tube radio from another company is lame.

don't you, uh, have a really nice USB DAC?

He caught Monkey Disease in Africa.

Has anyone tried the AudioCast M5 streamer?

http://audiocast.io/

Looking to use it for my patio rig...

Is there a rule to which DAC I can share? I'm going to introduce tube DAC out of China from company that made all the gear for a high end German brand. It's the Doge 7 company doesn't over produce they have four items. The DAC is pretty amazing design is superclean and doesn't waste real estate. The builder is a pure analogue engineer so he had to work with a company to do the digital side. There's more to the build then I could share. It's $2k with tubes or you can save and get your own. This is my favorite DAC out of many I have owned. biggest is the Dynamics and fullness that other DACs did not have do side by side comparison. It also has a headphone section. It's not analytical or sterile. You get a warm lively sound with girth. No roll off in the treble. I was worried that it didn't use the latest ess chip but surprised that there is no sheen that many have complained about older ess chips. I choose tube over others because I hear a more natural sound vs what many will call a DAC to digital. In that part I was never bothered by digital going from tapes to cd was a big change in my younger years.  website www.doge.audio