Open and musical

The instructions are in Chinese, but you don't really need them anyway if you use a dac.

I bought the Dac5 virtually on a whim as I have never been completely happy with my Muse. What an eye opener, from straight out of the box, open and oh so musical, I really couldn't believe what I was hearing, for less than the price off a decent pair of interconnects. Purely on price it shouldn't even be on a short list with my components, but hearing is believing, and it has been a good while since I have been so content to listen to music without thinking of my next upgrade.
As I haven't had it for very long my ratings are based on initial thoughts. But if it improves over time, then there aren't enough stars to rate it.

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Just the Muse

outstanding soundstage wide and depth, superb detailed resolution, deep bass (fits my speakers perfectly! - very lucky...) sounds very live and neutral but not cold, not warm! excellent build box and electronics.

in fact this unit makes you stay at home and not going to gigs anymore, very bad thing!

i bought this dac @ anewdigital.com professional trader, great communication and handling, fast shipping - excellent as you wish everyone would deal with you like that. the shipping is included in the 330EURO! my setup: terratec ewx24/96 nad c320 bee focal.jmlab cobalt 816 jubilee sound is awesome! this unit ist unbelievable value for money! there aint alot "cheap" and really good DACs on the european market, the AQVOX USB2 ist 750EUR and the BENCHMARK DAC is almost 1000, now thats not cheap anymore from my pov. i think i will try a AQVOX soon (heard alot good about it) to check out if its worth the twice expensive price... but i really doubt that. i bought a DAC because most of my music is on harddisk (about 50000 songs now...) and i could not take the sound of the (even good sounding) terratec soundcard anymore, compared to my cdplayer its a pain in the a. im so happy now, i can listen to di.fm also now with highend sound. i will recommend this unit to everyone asking me for a DAC that can be bought for really small money AND anybody else ready to pay 1000+ for a DAC. the behringer ultramatch pro is a joke compared to this unit, i heard it. ok, its only 150EUR so i did not expect to much... i admit it need some courage to by a DAC without listen to it before but at this price i had to try it and i personly got rewarded for that, in my ears it sounds great.

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CDP: so many, cant remember all... NAD, cambridge audio azur 340c, onkyo dx7711, onkyo dx7333, pioneer pd-s8700, pd-s505 and pd-s505 precision (still in use, very live and organic), yamaha, some older phillips CD-XXX, TEAC c-1d, sharp oldie, you name it. DACs: only the behringer ultramatch pro

Build quality and quality of components used. Everything about the sound, I just cannot fault any part of the sound, it would have to be the most neutral DAC i have ever listened to. XLR outputs as well as standard RCA jacks means you can save big dollars on interconnects as XLR has a much better sound even with modest interconnects.

The Xindak brand is not well known here.

If I had to describe this in one word that word would have to be amazing. Amazing value for money and sound. Overall tone is near perfect, bass is fast and low and the soundstage is as detailed as I've heard in DACs costing 3-4 times more. The air around instruments and vocalists approaches that of even high quality SACD playback, in fact listening to this unit playing back redbook makes me wonder why i bothered starting a collection of SACDs. The DAC3 needed a few days constant running to sound anything approaching special and just over a week to fully blossom. Now after a month and a half I can quite happily say I've found a DAC that i'm happy with. I think that sometime in the near future Xindak will become a name that will be as well known as any Japanese or British HiFi manufacturer is now. You really should find someone with one of these and have a listen.

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