Gustard X20U?

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Thank you, getting there.....

Yea it is working real nice in the "Loft Library"! Enjoying the hell out of it up here....
 
Randy Myers said:
Thank you, getting there.....

Yea it is working real nice in the "Loft Library"! Enjoying the hell out of it up here....
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Very nice. Plus you can "share" your music with the rest of the house. You know you've reached audio nirvana when your wife asks what your band wants to drink after they're done playing.
 
Well it definitely can be shared through the house.... Sometimes she likes the music on other times no... but that is what headphones are for :)...
 
Pulled the trigger on the Gustard. Will know in a couple weeks if my tastes match Marty's.
 
Thanks Evan, no pressure at all. I guess I can buy it from you if you don't like it. I could use one in my headphone system.

Marty

ACHiPo said:
Pulled the trigger on the Gustard. Will know in a couple weeks if my tastes match Marty's.
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DHL visited yesterday, but unfortunately no one was home to sign for the package. Fortunately they left a little sticky which we signed so I will have an X20U burning in this evening. :congrats:
 
ACHiPo said:
DHL visited yesterday, but unfortunately no one was home to sign for the package. Fortunately they left a little sticky which we signed so I will have an X20U burning in this evening. :congrats:
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Congratulations!!! I hope you love it, I know I love the new W4S...
 
Hooked it up tonight and gave it a quick listen. It sounds really good. Some glare and grain, but that's to be expected. Will listen off and on over the next few days and post updates.
 
After about 10 hours it is sounding even better. Great detail and immediacy. Musicality improving, but still some glare and tiz. Listening to Nilsson's "Jump into the Fire" and drums are phenomenal on this thing! I am not disappointed and hopeful that I will be even more delighted.
 
You are describing pretty much what I was hearing on the W4S... Mine is probably about 120 hours (or more) now and really smoothing out very nicely. I believe, from what you are saying, that they have very similar sound characteristics! I am sure you will like it more and more as it gets broken in.
 
Randy Myers said:
You are describing pretty much what I was hearing on the W4S... Mine is probably about 120 hours (or more) now and really smoothing out very nicely. I believe, from what you are saying, that they have very similar sound characteristics! I am sure you will like it more and more as it gets broken in.
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Losing track of hours of burn-in, but somewhere around 36 and the X20 keeps getting better and better. It's smoothed out significantly overnight. Listening to Allen Toussaint's "The Bright Mississippi" and the clarinet sounds reedy and sweet, the piano full. Lots of air, tons of detail, but the etched instrument placement is softening. Drums are maybe the big surprise--I'd been auditioning/reviewing another DAC and it was a big improvement over my Oppo 105 that I'd been using. The Gustard has some similarities in increased detail, better bass, more air, but a difference is how real drums sound with the Gustard compare to the Oppo or DAC DAC--I get a sense of the stick hitting the head, and the tonal flavor of how the drum is tuned.
 
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