G'day Ron I have a Trends running with an external DAC into 87db sensitivity ribbon tweeter speakers. All I can say is "wow". The clarity and definition is amazing, soundstage and separation very good and imaging excellent. Close your eye's and you'd swear you were listening to a half decent valve.
The little Trends won't drive large volume but is very very musical. Musicality is obviously improved by the external DAC but even with the internal SB DAC the sound is very very nice. Great midrange and tight definition if tending a little bright - but then again that's my non oversampling DAC going about it's business. You will be very happy with the Trends - it small, always on and best of all is really really cheap. Want more? Hook it up to an external 12v Battery supply. The sound transforms to a thing of beauty. Ditto the SB - get a decent 5v 1.5amp adapter. Oh and don't skimp on the interconnects - it does make a difference. Ditto re isolation - blue tack the amp (you'll need to anyway to stop it moving) to a resonance free surface or better still tack it to an isolating surface ( at worst a 1inch thick piece of MDF, at best a 1/2 thick piece of marble) and isolate that from resonance by 4 1/2 squash balls) Wouldn't recommend it for rock, drum and bass etc - it hasn't got the horsepower to drive deep Hz. I listen to 90 % Classical and Opera and it's perfect. Suffers abit on organ. Drop me a line if you want more info. Cheers Tricka -- tricka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tricka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11614 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35341 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
