Antipodes S60 LPS

I’ve been talking to Mark with Antipodes over the past week. He has been great and has gone out of his way to answer everyone of my questions.

Did any of your get / purchase this S60?I have a Bricasti M1SE with built in Ethernet Roon endpoint player so I just need Ethernet Server function. I bought the S30. It sounds great! I use with an Uptone Audio JS-2 which a great linear power supply but I’m thinking about adding the Antipodes S60. I’m curious about this power supply and wondering if anyone bought it.
I went with S30 because I would not need a lot of the functions on the S40 where my Bricasti does 1/2 the work. I don’t do anything crazy with DSP in Roon to need a more powerful based server. I think it sounds great. Better them CX.

I was wondering about the hybrid approach we seem to be hearing more about on the LPS world where they include switching mode with linear to increase speed delivery? 

I ended up getting the S60 and K10(ripper). My current digital set-up is the Antipodes S40, S30, S60, and K10. Per my conversation with Mark(Antipodes) it will take a week or so to totally break-in?

fsmithjack,

I actually ordered the Uptone Audio JS-2 and canceled my order. So much of this hobby is psychological to me, so I order the S60 to prevent from wondering if the JS-2 was the correct choice. 

Honesty, I can't tell you what adding the S60 is doing. I added the S60, S30, and K10 at the same time. I went from streaming music to listening to ripped CDs. It was immediately apparent that music had more body, detail, and more open. 

@ricred1 - That Antipodes combination you have should sound wonderful - enjoy it!  After happily using the DX (upgraded to DX3) for some years now, I decided to deviate away from Antipodes and ordered Mojo Audio's  Deja Vu EVO Media Server/Streamer.  I have been quite pleased with the sound of his Mystique EVO B4B 21 D/A Converter, which arrived earlier this week (and I previously owned his Mystique v3) so I am going to give the server a try.

@fsmithjack - if your Bricasti DAC has a direct Ethernet input, take a look at the Antipodes K40 which retains the high performing server function from their flagship K50 without the player function (which can be added later, if desired).  If my Mojo DAC had a direct Ethernet input, that is the direction I would have gone.  Obviously a converter/player could be used (such as my Metrum Ambre) to accept the Ethernet output from the K40 and then connect to the DAC, but I decided not to put another piece in the signal chain.  I also didn't want to spring for the pricy Antipodes K50.  The more simplistic option I chose was to order the Mojo server with the upgraded JCAT XCXO PCIe USB card and since the Mojo DAC is already optimized for the USB input (with its own separate power supply) I decided to simply use the direct USB connection between the server and DAC.   If for some reason I don't like the Mojo server, I will not hesitate to go back to Antipodes.