will the battery drain off fast with the UD100?

came back hometown, forgot to bring the UD100 along

now have to suffer from listening to a bad source (PC) and a picky IEM

for a month

seem like this tiny dac become hot cake in headfi~

Stoner Acoustics is indeed serious about the sound, the business!!!

EXCELLENT customer service / after-sales service!!!
I get an one to one exchange due to an accident that I spoiled the one I bought just a month ago (opps!). Supposedly, I have to pay if I want to have it fixed.. How awesome is that? Very gracious...

About the sound? It's CLEAN and CLEAR in all: high, mid or low. I am not sure whether it has any colouration, it's considered neutral to me, while the songs and music become high fidelity! (Make sure you have good music files)

I used to own Audiotrak Optoplay, PCM2704, Wolfson WM8501, FiiO E10. None of them leaves as strong impression as the UD100 does. Well, the other DAC that really impressed me was Audiotrak Prodigy HD2 (it costs RM400+).

You should be very pleased with this little UD100. The sound produced is in high clarity even bass is in clear nice beats. Surely cukup makan for friends who aren't ready to get an expensive DAC, who want it PORTABLY!!

Hi JerRy, how does the DAC sound with Koss KCS75?

It's quite bassy, other than that, it's good. Maybe you will need to do something with the equalizer.

I've been using UD100 for a copule of weeks on my home PC. The only word I can say is...this tiny dac is damn good! I just about to give away my superlux HD681 but the UD100 dac had forced me to keep it on action again after a long rest inside the drawer.

UD100 really increase the bass impact of HD681. Midrange and treble are clean although on some track it sound a lil bit harsh. I think this is due to the weakness of HD681 driver it self. So after a little adjustment on the foobar equlizer the harshness of the treble was tamed down.

I can't believe this small and very simple dac can produce an amazing audiophile grade of sound. I'm waiting eagerly for bro chchyong to come out with his first headphone amp in near future.

i tried this DAC with Audio techinca W5000 (?) i think and the sound is great especially the vocals... the female vocals.... ermmm yummy but the details a bit clutted.... well i guess it can be solve with a decent amp but really surprising how well it can drive for a tiny and looking fragile (yes i was afraid of broken it when i have to pull out from the usb port lol) DAC.

Hi,

Any idea why I couldn't get the camera connection kit working with this USB DAC in my ipad 2? Any tweak needed?

Cheers. CSC

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Added on September 27, 2012, 1:31 pmFinally, managed to get this Cili Padi working on both iPad 2 and iPhone 4. You would need to use iPad Camera Connection Kit though. For iPhone 4, must be jailbroken, with additional Cydia Tweak call CameraConnector.

Now I could enjoy a better lossless sound through iPhone. More presence of bass for sure.

Cheers. CSC



This post has been edited by cschuang: Sep 27 2012, 01:31 PM

Great! How much you buy the CCK?

Ordered one for my HS80M, gonna see how gd is it =)

RM89. Any authorised Apple products seller would have it. There are also 3rd party 'CCK' available on the net, some cheaper, some slightly more, but don't know whether it's compatible with this cili padi.

Cheers. CSC

I'm on my holiday now, left both my UD100 and S500 back at my other house. Miss them so much.

I want to listen to music tak syok lah.

Got it for couple of hours ady. Hook it up to my HS80M studio monitor and A/B with my DT990 250ohm set. Initial impression= kinda disappointed with this product xD It makes my fav artist Adele's voice sounds unnatural. Too much "colouration"? Praying that "burning in" is not a myth =.='''

IMHO Adele's album 21 has a bad recording. In Rolling In the Deep you can hear clearly the snare/counter for her cue before she started singing, right after the bass guitar. Probably had leaked out from her headphones while recording. Also the effects on her vocal is quite excessive.

Try to find a live recording of Someone Like You, the with her in the house. That sounded better.

I highly recommend Zee Avi's new album Ghostbird to test out the vocals.

Well, that's surprising. From most of the previous replies the DAC looks like a neutral DAC yet u found it too much coloration

This post has been edited by CoolBoy89: Sep 30 2012, 12:04 PM

I prefer her "Someone like you" and " Set Fire to the Rain" more. Didn't notice much about the excessive effects on her vocal" tho, mind to elaborate more boss?

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Added on September 30, 2012, 1:07 pmYea, Neutrality<-- this is probably the main reason I choose this DAC over other available music interface in the market. The above claim is just my personal view, I've very little experience in audio world so I'll just explain in layman term =p No doubt this DAC improves the clarity and soundstage quite a lot. How I should put it, let me see. Erm, Lows, Mids and highs did improve no doubt on that. The left/right soundstage improves a lot, very wide indeed, but the fron/back soundstage becomes very very narrow IMO, very forward. used to feel that Adele's voice can make someone shed their tears, you can hear the sadness in her voice. however, when I used it with the HS80M, the "sadness feeling" is gone, now Adele's sounds very cheerful lol <--- This is where the impression of "colouration" I made come from. It doesn't synergize with my DT990 bundle either. With this DAC, now I feel that the singer is singing from my back. Haha, I hope I'm not mad to get this feeling. Nevertheless, my ATH-CK100 seems to benefit a lot from this DAC. I used to get this "veil" and not wide enough soundstage when I use my Ck100 on my lappy, but this DAC seems to open up the whole thing, makes my Ck100 sounds like full-size can Well, this is what I "feel" about this DAC, I'm CONFUSED

This post has been edited by chingwooi: Sep 30 2012, 01:07 PM

With DT880 and T90, I also feels that the soundstage getting deeper and as if the vocal is singing either inside or at the back of my head. So, you're not crazy in this part.

When you listen to the music you should hear some artificial reverb on her vocals. It's that effect that makes the vocal sound echoing inside your bathroom. It makes the whole vocal sound very nice if done properly but excessive reverb would make the vocals sound very artificial. You don't really notice any effects when vocals are mixed into the music, without the effects, vocals would sound less energetic and very unsatisfactory. Even for live recordings musicians sometimes use effects to sound close to album recordings.

Adele has a very good voice, I must praise her for that. But the effects kinda killed it. This is a personal view however, so take it with a pinch of salt.

If you want a good example of vocals with an effect, try to grab some acapella recordings of artists. For me I have an acapella of Chester from a song by Linkin Park. You can hear the reverb very clearly. Alternatively, you can try comparing a live show with a studio recording. Usually you can hear in live shows the vocals are more 'pure'.

I see, learnt smth today =) Yes, I do agree on the "effect" that you mentioned. Actually I was listening to her live performance of "Someone like you" when i comment yesterday. Anyway, will definitely gv those songs a try when I've time