>> Make sure to burn in this DAC for at least 800 hours. <<
Wow, 800 hours?! 4 hrs./day for 200 daze - yowza! That's one heckuva long burn-in! No way to sneak that in under a home-trial policy, I betcha. It would be interesting to find someone who bought 2 and then put the 800 hrs. solely on one of them to see how (if?) the sound changes...
-RW-
Ferris, you out there?