I may start low first ... nearfield listening setup Looking for something like those RM800ish speaker (Wharfedale Diamond, AE Neo, PSB B1 etc) + T-Amp(bang for the buck, details yet decent enough power for nearfield or small room enviroment), may spent more on IC and Speaker cable, targetting D102 MKIII and Royal Jade (got some lubang from my China friend ), musical is essential cos next level upgrade would be Audio-GD's higher end DAC which quite certain to be highly transparent + very little musically, thus VDH may accompany me till the end

This post has been edited by GodLuvSxS: Dec 21 2008, 02:38 AM

Still not yet join the CD63 gang, Seriously DAC100 is a step higher than stock ZERO + EARTH discrete opamp, as Abel and Chua mentioned, it's comes with very low distortion, very detailed yet it's clean and smooth, somemore it's quite sensitive to power cord too, we changed 2 power cords in the process, I can easily tells the difference between them, I'm a power cord believer now!!!

Van Tan Hoh is really good, natural, without any emphasis on any frequencies, no wonder it's selling like a piece of hot cakes for decades!

CD63 is quite good, almost perfect to me but IMHO with better soundstage, details and tigher bass, it's full marks! Something in between DAC100's transparency and CD63's musicality would be the best and most balanced!

This post has been edited by GodLuvSxS: Jan 4 2009, 06:15 PM

Which speaker are u going to your amp with?

Just fin exchanged email with Kingwa, seems like the coming soon budget DAC not going to sell according to customization, so you gotta pay full USD250 for the DAC + headamp in one box. and Kingwa assure me that DAC100 is better than the new budget dac in DAC section due to better regulator and better transformer used inside the DAC100 and he said with better power cord it's going to improves more!

Personally I think it's quite a good combination, quite musical yet with decent dynamic, the audiospace tube got two type of output selection? Seen Abel switching between 2 modes, the upper one does sound more refined and polite while the lower one sound more punchy and the sound is more compact. Loves the lower one more ... Seems more synergy during our listening session, I found that most of time we were testing about dynamic and bass impact