Ricred1,
I loved my DSD and am on record as describing it as a great DAC not just a very good one. I think it is the very best in its price range and better than many more expensive ones. I really enjoyed my DSD and think very highly of it. That said your M1 doesn't have many hours on it only being in day 2 which is very very early in the game.
It will still improve from 150 hours to 200 hours. I personally think its true mono construction and triple linear power supplies needs more time than most to truly ripen. Its industrial build is just that, heavy duty commercial like and this needs more time to loosen and open up than the more consumer focused products made in much higher volume levels.
Brian makes them by hand himself one at a time and it takes him almost a week to hand build it. He doesn't stock them up like a buffet under a heat lamps but makes them fresh to order one at a time. You can still smell the sold aluminum block that was just freshly milled a few days before you received it. Its done onsite in his own in-house CNC milling laths. He owns three of them! Heck Jeff Rolland even out sources his stuff but not Brian. For the different filters to truly become effective these needs a lot of good old burn in.
I think it is still sounding better even at over 200 hours. I think a bit later on you won't be as concerned with being " careful not to exaggerate the differences between the DSD and M1" but rather your emphasis will switch to being careful on how you honestly depict the differences without sounding like your needlessly bad mouthing the DSD. Its hard to describe how much better one is without it being at the other expense but the M1 is so much more money and its a more higher focused unit that it should be better. They are totally different price points. IMO it's going to offer you a lot more than just pulling you into the music but that's the fun part of letting it evolve in front of your ears. Once all burned in nice and good it's going to knock your socks off!! Enjoy my friend I am glad you like it : )
I loved my DSD and am on record as describing it as a great DAC not just a very good one. I think it is the very best in its price range and better than many more expensive ones. I really enjoyed my DSD and think very highly of it. That said your M1 doesn't have many hours on it only being in day 2 which is very very early in the game.
It will still improve from 150 hours to 200 hours. I personally think its true mono construction and triple linear power supplies needs more time than most to truly ripen. Its industrial build is just that, heavy duty commercial like and this needs more time to loosen and open up than the more consumer focused products made in much higher volume levels.
Brian makes them by hand himself one at a time and it takes him almost a week to hand build it. He doesn't stock them up like a buffet under a heat lamps but makes them fresh to order one at a time. You can still smell the sold aluminum block that was just freshly milled a few days before you received it. Its done onsite in his own in-house CNC milling laths. He owns three of them! Heck Jeff Rolland even out sources his stuff but not Brian. For the different filters to truly become effective these needs a lot of good old burn in.
I think it is still sounding better even at over 200 hours. I think a bit later on you won't be as concerned with being " careful not to exaggerate the differences between the DSD and M1" but rather your emphasis will switch to being careful on how you honestly depict the differences without sounding like your needlessly bad mouthing the DSD. Its hard to describe how much better one is without it being at the other expense but the M1 is so much more money and its a more higher focused unit that it should be better. They are totally different price points. IMO it's going to offer you a lot more than just pulling you into the music but that's the fun part of letting it evolve in front of your ears. Once all burned in nice and good it's going to knock your socks off!! Enjoy my friend I am glad you like it : )