First impressions

[philrandal]

Since this thread is entitled 'First impressions' I thought I would throw my SMSL Sanskrit 10th Mk2 DAC into the mix. It's playing through an Allo USBridge Sig, powered by an Allo Nirvana SMPS (which arrived today :-)
The sound is amazingly good. It's different to my Katana (with separate power supplies to each board) but not obviously worse except that perhaps the treble is a bit bright on some recordings. Since I only paid £75 for the Sanskrit that is very surprising to me. I'll have to do a lot more listening to come up with a preference.

I received my SMSL Sanskrit 10th MK II today.

Wow, what a difference from the Allo MiniBoss I'd previously used.  The treble seems a bit bright to me on some stuff too.  I'll play with the filters eventually to see if that tames it.

Phil