Abhishek Chowdhary

@Koth Ganesh : LOL, never met anyone harder to please!

@gurubhai and who's to blame for that :)
OTOH, it's entirely possible usb is the bottleneck here. Given how dramatically a good spdif source can elevate capable dacs, I believe jade may have more to offer. Yet, jade's 'loudness on' kinda sound is probably inherent

@gurubhai: All this fuss for 50s-60s Bollywood music :).

Want a tad more midbass. Sounds cold sometimes.

WA6SE is has more oomph. With the right tubes, not bad, only complaint is still weakish sound.

The wa6 I heard was perhaps with stock tubes(need to confirm with owner)
Weak power aside, Auteur sounded as if cups had lots of reverb (hollow kind). While on a DIY SS cups coloration was lot more controlled. From limited experience, tubes that lack microdynamics/resolve tend to give that fake depth and reverb sound to make for a pleasing listen. Sounds so wrong though.

And I think WA6(SE) are still the best of the Woo bunch...

Screechy is actually a strong word, it's the kind of treble that's little emphasized but unresolving.
Not all is bad though. Timing is pretty good and the lower mids have good resolution.

Does that mean that assemblage is a keeper now?

Win10?

How do you get that working with coax/BNC? Image of the card has a couple of old school looking D-sub ports on the back of it.

@gurubhai Assemblage sale already withdrawn.
@JustAnotherRando - Use pin 15 for center pin on bnc. Connect ground to Card's chassis and you are all set. In ASIO control panel set digital out to SPDIF(Consumer). Here's a pic.
https://i.imgur.com/2zC4aeQ.jpg

I was initially kind of thrown off by the sound as well, but somehow it really grew on me over time. I listen with the jot most of the time now, but my valhalla2 is just as good, albeit different. Oh, one other thing, for awhile it seemed to me that the low gain setting had less treble steeliness. I'm running balanced. But like I say that impression has diminished for me.

I say give it some time for your brain/ears to adjust

Yeah, the low gain has less offensive treble and also less forward. High gain just messed up everything, no depth at all. My DAC is single ended (modded Assemblage dac2/Transdac) hence cannot try Bal. I'll have the jot for few days, shall see.

Appears many people here like the S version more.

I went for the X after reading the glowing reviews everywhere. But this thing sounds as worse as any cheap desktop speaker. Bass is particular is too synthetic and disjointed.

It uses the AKM4490, which uses AKM's "velvet sound" architecture. You are not the only one who thinks that; there are many reports of it being too bassy, V-shaped, with unnatural timbre. Summoning @Psalmanazar , who has been very vocal about this.

AK intentionally made the timbre of their AK4490 onward stuff much worse as that is what vendors asked for. The older AK4396 and 4399 sound very good for delta-sigma DAC chips; some of the best along with the AD1955.

That's because you didn't add sorbothane to the bottom of the Mojo... :)

Jokes aside, I think maybe something like a Wyrd might help. It might be related to your USB port/Computer. Since I recall the Mojo using optical in didn't have crippled dynamics or bass

Yeah, that may be possible. My desktop DAC too sounds different depending upon the input. AES >> Coax.
I've used mojo in following combos :
1) USB OTG from a phone (some exotic usb cable) - Sounds meh. Too much of digital haze and slow sound. Android/App may be the culprit (Tried UAPP, Onkyo HF, Foobar)
2) USB from PC using a regular charging cable - Listenable
3) As a standalone DAC - BS

Sure thing. Drop me a PM.