Hey Mr Walabies, I've received the parcel this morning. Finally its here

Items are in good condition, except the box of the UM1 being "squeezed" during the shipping and caused a bit out of shape. But those things inside the box are alright tho.

Here are some pictures, heavily edited as I'm not satisfy with the original resolution (Click the Spoiler)



Burning the UM1 now, sound is getting better, when listen to Jack Johnson, you can clearly hear the sound of the guitar string....Well, I shouldn't do any review yet tho.....not until I'm satisfy with the burn in The only thing is I'm not used to is the way to put on the earphone, it's quite different to those I have last time, and my girlfriend said I look like hearing impaired person when I put the headphone on

I've hook up the DAC with my lappy too, haven't tried it out yet, will do that later when I free.

Bump for a good seller

This post has been edited by mercury: Apr 28 2008, 12:17 PM

LOL, dunno lo, the service sometimes fast sometimes slow, but usually within one week unless the parcel stuck at Customs. And good thing about here is anything below value of 1k are tax free (except Alcohol and Cigarette).

I've tried the DAC. Well, for me I can't hear significant difference between my on-board (Intel HDA) and the DAC, but I would say there are improvements on Music, clarity and the sound are quite "pure" from the DAC. Go through a good AMP makes it sounds even better. So it's a recommended source for Laptop -> AMP if you're looking for replacement for on-board sound card for music. Go for it.
For some reason, I've to push the volume almost to full (under Vista) to hear the "equal loud" sound with my on-board (on-board sets volume to 50%)

For Your Information, The USB DAC work with linux too, detected and supported by ALSA under Ubuntu Kernel (I don't see why not on other Kernel as long as the system using ALSA). Need little trick to make it work if you have onboard sound card which work as default sound already. PM me if anyone need help on using the DAC under linux.

Still burning the earphone, sounds better and better.....Something weired is, I can't hear improvement with or w/o my portable amp .....Maybe something is wrong with my ears, or maybe is time to upgrade my portable AMP LOL


Once again , Bump for GOOD Seller

LOL, not really a review tho, just sharing lil bit of experience.

Hmm, I left my non portable ones back at home tho, only left with a PA2V2. And I bought JVC UXN1W as a bookshelf system over here, using it as an AMP for my computer. Well, thought of getting better set of speakers and AMP, still thinking

Hmmm, interesting.....did I said something about putting the petite DAC on portable player ? Well, maybe I did a bad explanation, LOL.

What I mean is DAC with laptop or PC.

Earphones are with are portable player.

Laptop -> DAC-> AMP ->
Portable Player -> Portable AMP ->

I did bypass my on-board DAC, and set the petite DAC as my output.

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By the way, I realize that the UM1 driver (left hand side) does pickup cellphone frequencies(I dunno of this is the right name), or I should say the SIGNAL noise (like when you put your cellphone nearby ur speakers, you can hear the irritating sound ) Is that normal on UM1 ? Don't have this kind of problem with others tho. You can imagine when you put the earphone "in" your ears, and suddenly your cellphone rings or a message come in, the irritating sound goes straight into your ears clear n loud

Anyone else have this kind of experience ???