USB to SPDIF Converters

Just received a gen 1 V-Link from Audio Advisor. The $99 clearance price was hard to ignore. Using it with a gen 1 V-DAC. Asus netbook via Kimber USB to V-Link to V-DAC via StereoVox Coax. V-DAC via JPS Labs RCAs to pre-amp. I need to do some more a/b'ing but my initial impression just based on listening to Pandora is a big improvement over the V-DAC alone. More presence, air and wider/deeper soundstage. Not at all broken in yet (only a few hours on it) so I'm hoping more hours will cure what to my ear sounds like a bit of hardness that the V-DAC alone did not seem to have. FWIW.

I am using a generation 1 V-Link with an Emotiva XDA-1 dac. No hardness at all, just sheer musical bliss.

As luck would have it, the price on the v link dropped from 169.00 to 99.00 31 days after I bought it from AA.

Stereo5 - what sort of interconnects are you using? Haven't looked it up but I'm guessing your Emotiva is a cut above the V-DAC. Thanks.

Ghosthouse
I am using the Emotiva X series digital cable from the spdif converter to the dac, and Groneberg quattro reference cables from the dac to the preamp.

Thanks, Stereo5. I think I'll give some more time to the V-Link. Sounds are certainly NOT objectionable right now. Merry Christmas.