purr1n

Ran a search for PCM1795 and @ultrabike's comment in this thread was one of the only hits. Anyone have impressions of this chip and in which unit did you hear it? Recently took my Rag to a dealer to demo speakers, and they had a Luxman DA-250 we used as DAC.

It’s a cutdown pcm1794 advanced segment hybrid chip with updated digital back end. It’s in the Tascam 3000 that has good stage but has the hybrid warmth and color. You can get a lot better for a thousand bucks: Dangerous Source, RME, Lavry Black all run circles around it

The hybrid chips just cost more and aren’t as good as modern “multi-bit” DS chips from CS, AD, AK, and TI themselves. The perceived coloration is more important than the better specs. You will be disappointed with the color if you ab it, same as the AKM velvet sound veil

JDS to all other amps/dac companies: My knob is bigger than yours!!!!

It's not the size of the knob that matters...it's how you use it...

CBS: Cut-rate Bit Stream. For those times when you want to remember what 48kbps MP3 from 1996 sounded like.

Well. He did the Legend of Zorro. Which IMO sucked! (YMMV)

Are you in London? I was just there...

YES I DID!!!!

I wonder if yours sounds different than what I heard at Tyll's for some reason. It was just plain bad.

I call seconds :)

I agree it sounded really bad at RMAF.

Maybe ask them for a loaner?

TTVJ wrote, "We have confirmed our order of the Dharma is shipping to us mid October."

Found it: http://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/how-to-allocate-budget-among-headphones-amps-and-dac-source.57/#post-1707

Great idea. EHHA with the proper PSU mods is a killer amp with HD800. I prefer it to a Pinnacle i heard.

I'd be willing to build stuff. I've been thinking about doing a Changstar build of the new Torpedo 3.