Lots of detail, a little bright, oddly it gets brighter if you leave it on for a while. It also gets quite warm, so you need a bit of ventilation.
Not sure I like the light show, not worked out yet how to switch it off. Looks like 1980s cassette deck meters. I am using coax in and balanced out, as the Teac D700 only has coax or toslink. Balanced output is true balanced and 6dB louder.
Not as natural as the Audio Syntesis DAX Discrete I normally use.
Not tried it yet as an analogue to digital converter. The record feature and usb connection is good. You could use it as a source.
For anyone interested these are " adequate " On the 4 Ohm tap they have a little valve noise through the speakers with your ears within inches of the drivers. Once any music is playing this is not discernible. The upside is that 4 Ohm tap gives a much better control of the drivers and greater headroom. Even on Class A 25W setting loudness is not a limiting factor. These are better than the AR D115 that I previously used.
Not quite up to 100 hours on the valves yet but control/ hear through into the recording techniques on different recordings is improving.
Apart from their enormous size and large glowing valves they can disappear on suitably recorded music whether digital or vinyl. I quite like them
