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^although weirdly enough, I find it less amp-picky than Auteur. Kind of a strange dichotomy

I have been doubting my 2541 order lately as I wait for it to arrive...so your posts over the last 24 hours have been just the affirmation I need. Very excited to try it out. I think it will be just the ticket for my LS3/5A. Now whether I like it more than BF2 with SW51+ and stable of headphones will be the question.

@ChaChaRealSmooth Haha, Verite is also picky at different levels. I often hook up to a couple of Toppings. Rejection severer than I recall for Auteur. lol. Auteur more pickier as approaching to the optimal point.

@Inoculator Looking forward to hearing your impression. I don't think I can go back to any of bifrost, gungnir, or yggdrasil for different reasons respectively, but huge subjective/personal factors kick in.

Yup. All agreed. Real race is not a one time show (such as drag race) but complicated sum of every part of system. And that's often observed in any part of specialized tech areas -- of course including audio.

Anyway naturally aspirated engine must be super obsolete (as per JA) in 2021, and glad to see such a car outperforms something like Tesla by big big margin (1:15 delta in Nordschleife lmfao)

Is this what we're talking about?
https://youtu.be/7oH44w4RGp8

Yeah, that's the newer 992 gt3 one. Indeed most previous gen gt3s commonly showed "spec is only number" in any shape. lol

Which covering type did you get back then?

Lambskin. Mines are one of the earliest prototypes, so I am unsure if they're the same as current ones.

Finally you see the light.

Not only randos, almost everything in life is that way. Our minds are butthurt I guess.

Let alone my badass VC preference to VO by a bit.. But VC LTD is semi-unobtanium (for reasonable costs/trades).

Freya+ gain (or something like Nexus-T) + Continuity out in Mjo pricing... that must be really something to make bold claims.... (drooling)

give another few days!

Should hear more to confirm, but (with M4-Erish-Verite) everything wetter and more agreeable richness on lower highs.

I felt my m2 had good impact on my 6XX. It has taken over desktop duty, also helps that it doesn't heat up my room.

That's interesting. I personally didn't like much how 6xx driven by M4. It doesn't sound catastrophic, but not very engaging and articulate in ways I like. But it could be just me -- my love-hatred with 6xx has a long history and documented here and there. lol.

I came across some Excel models I built many years ago. I was proud of them at the time. Looking at them now, the use of formulas was pedestrian. Layout = disjointed Color palette was pathetic. I know what you mean!

It's all part of learning process and we all have to go thru this. That's why its important to have Team leads as reviewer and mentor.

I once read words to this effect from a coder:
“The worst code I ever wrote was 3 months ago, and the best code I ever wrote was today. This will also be true 3 months from now...”

More interestingly, the builtin hp out was ridiculously synergistic when easy driving loads paired with. Great head stages, good intimacy, and lovely tone (albeit a little cheap and childish).

Not sure how similar they are internally, but I find my M2 to be perfectly agreeable for background listening. Definitely very intimate sound. Almost like being in an overdamped booth, but for background listening, it is perfectly fine. As a DAC only at this point. Only use HP for monitoring real time.

I love my M2, pretty good considering it is a interface.

How do the two compare? I'm actually going to have both in-house soon. Was kind of curious how Modius would sound with balanced outs.

Ignoring maturity and perfection, interesting similarity in some aspects bw the two found (particularly upper treble, transient and overall tonal balance).

Highly recommended. 2541 really feels like a cayman gt in the dac realm. Responsive, coming with its own cool style, super fun, day to day usable (compatible with crap tracks).

I'm waiting for a Bifrost 2 as well. Not sure that I consider In Stock and Ships in 7 to 10 Days to be synonymous but it is what it is.

I'm waiting for the 2541 to ship still. Ordered from modhouse on 16 Jan. They're waiting for stock from Soekris.

> 22 kHz band is lossy (so not audible band). If the track is encoded without dsp tricks, Mqa is a 13 bit encoding that should be transparent...

Now if Soekris can just ship units to Modhouse, one can be on its way to me!

I remember quite liking the sound from the 1421 loaner, so looking forward to this one quite a bit. Haven't heard a Bifrost 2.

@atomicbob : Thanks, that looks like an awesome tip to check out!

@Syzygy : I was in that loaner tour and liked 1421, too. I could remain sane. Similar with the 1541 audition occured months later. This time around, perfection seems to be obtained with much higher maturity, which is driving me crazy. Oh well.

One could complain that the 1541 lacked that final couple percent that pushes it into "magic." The 2541 shows no such deficiency.