She arrived by DHL a day early. Thanks supply chain!
Out of the box the Spring 3 KTE sounds amazing and the it’s easy to hear the potential post break-in. Running tones through it for a couple of hours and listening to music again, and easy to hear it opening up. What hit me the most first listen was the soundstage, and in the early hours of use the bass especially the focus. Listening to a good bass and viscerally hearing the vibrato is wonderful. There is no smear of the image in any manner. Jazz like Bill Evens in DSD256 or Rock in various formats shows the soundstage of this DAC. I prefer it over the DSD Sr. and the DSD Sr. is no slouch. I start to wonder how much information pertaining to focus and articulation might be lost in oversampling?
Looking forward to the Spring 3 DAC unfolding with break-in.