winterfog

I spent a really stupid amount of time looking through capacitor reviews and reading the Bottlehead forum. I ultimately settled on Jantzen Superiors as the best price/performance ratio option that wasn't physically huge and didn't have to be shipped from Russia.

I ordered a pair of 1.8uF 800v output coupling caps to replace the stock Solens and a pair of 0.1uF interstage caps to replace the stock Dayton polys while I'm in there. My stock output caps are 1.5uF; supposedly going a little bigger will result in somewhat deeper bass extension but potentially less perceived "quantity" of bass.

Thanks for sharing that! One of these days I'll have to get around to experimenting with caps. I'd be interested to hear your impressions once you get those installed.

Inputs also matter. This is a 20+ year old DAC? No idea of input quality.

That said, Eitr/Gen 5 only fixes so much shitty USB. Jason declared it was the 2nd-coming for marketing reasons, but Mike didn’t. Hence the new USB solution that’s pending.

True, inputs matter, and that may confine the value of my observation to this particular assortment of gear. I should have noted that with the vintage DAC, the Eitr has to go through an RCA/BNC adaptor, which is a handicap.

I’ve previously noticed differences between Toslink/Eitr through a Modi Multibit, and found myself with the same preference, but those were more similar and the differences more subtle.

If you enjoy it more, that's awesome. Just because it's hyped beyond all Schiit, especially here, doesn't actually mean it's the second-coming.

I use the JVC FD01 modded and it's so much better than the isines.

Also the isines are overrated as balls. Dump em.