DirectStream DAC MKII Released

Well, James must like me more than others :grin: I am surprised no one else got email yet! Maybe I am getting his personal broken-in unit to save some break-in time :rofl:

Delivery it to golf course? My round will be ruined for sure!

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Thanks it will be great fun. I liked this from the email.

“As being part of the beta program we ask for your very valuable feedback! Please play with the unit, do strange things, and most importantly let us know what your thoughts are!”

I think :thinking: I might have strange things covered in my DAC tweaking trick book. I finally got around to using a USB shorting plug tying pins,2, 3 and 4 on DS I. Oh man is that unit quieter now. Plus I got a external LPS as well as 4400 transformers. I will have HDMI shoring plug for the DS I so it will be fun to see how much better Ted made this unew unit than tweaked DS.

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If you want it dropped at a specific location that is service center they just change the Sales Order.

I am a beta also!

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It will be interesting to see your DS MK2 in comparison to the heavily MOD DS.

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But don’t foget, it take quite a while for a new unit to break in. We might not know the full potential of the MKII for a while.

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I was going to drop in Lundahl’s before Thanksgiving. I am glad I held off. I think they will go to DSII if I find need for more and TSS is a long road.

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You could be one of the few to review TSS vs. DS MK2. You better get on the BETA list for TSS now!

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Congrats! Exciting times!

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The price of admission might be too much if too soon. I have Iconoclast SPTPC series II speaker cables in pipeline too. I wonder which II arrives first?

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Yes it is Sir!

The MkII is a big stretch for me, but may want to do it at some point. Waiting anxiously on the sidelines to hear reports of modded MkI vs MKII. Judging by what Ted has said, I am pretty sure I know what I am going to see posted on this board within the next month.

We do use USPS for smaller items such as Octave records, parts, and other misc items.
Fedex is used for most of the big stuff!

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Just FYI. As of 2:17pm MT…We haven’t shipped any beta units yet!

For the beta guys you’ll be getting shipping notifications (fingers double crossed) this week!

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Oh NO!! My USPS tracking number could be for the three Octave SACDs I ordered. It may have nothing to do with DS MK2. :astonished: :frowning_face:

Your just “an excitable boy” (in the Warren Zevon tradition). Yeah, I thought something didn’t seem right, and, James is out for the week. Patience is not one of my virtues either.

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Too much expectation has clouded my head, even worse is my golf spot was filled. Well, I could listen to the new disks, I guess.

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Hey, that’s not so bad, the new Octave recordings are phenomenal. I just got 3 for the prize of 2 sale going on now, 3 DSD256 files from Octave and am really enjoying them right now.

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Have you ordered anything form Octave Records? I have and they have always used USPS for that. They have never used USPS for equipment and I cannot imagine them doing so with an $8000 DAC.

Awesome. Which ones did you get?