Something you might want to consider is the Onkyo DP-X1, or whatever is the most current successor to it. It sounds great, can hold 432 GB of music, has both single end and balanced outputs, a lot of power and great sound. I believe Ivan is now an Onkyo dealer so he may be able to get it for you. The battery easily covers a trans-continental flight. I use it mostly with Noble Kaiser Encore and Shure se 535 Ltd IEMs, but also with Senns HD 650 and Beyerdynamic T5p. The capacity lets me carry a whole lot of 96/24 and 192/24 (as well as 88/24 and 176/24), and also DSD. I think retail now is a little less than $500. With good IEMs (and you have good IEMs (and they don’t have to be CIEMs, mine aren’t)),the sound is astoundingly good. I have a Chord Mojo and don’t even bother using it with the Onkyo (it does sound good in my iPod though), it just doesn’t need it.
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Office/Music Room
Dynaudio Heritage Special. Uptone Audio EtherRegen Ethernet Switch. Akasa NUC 10i7 with Roon Rock. Bryston BDP-3 Digital Music Player (with 4 Tb Internal SSD and Synology DS920+ NAS)-->Holo Audio May Kitsune Edition DAC-->Shunyata Sigma USB—>Gryphon Diablo 120 Integreted Amp w Transpatent XL PC. Oppo BDP-105D and BDP-203. Power: Shunyata Hydra Sigma S12 PD. Additional Cabling: WW Silver Electra PC, WW Electra PC, Shunyata Venom 3 PC. Digital: WW Starlight Ethernet, WW Gold Starlight AES-EBU, WW Platinum Starlight USB. IC and Speaker: WW Eclipse 8.
Bedroom System
Ipad with MusicStreamer App-->Schiit Jotunheim DAC/Amp—>Audeze LCD-XC, Focal for Bentley Radiance HO, Massdrop E-MU Teak HP. AK SE 200 DAP.
Mobile Survival Kit
Astell & Kern SP1000M. Noble Kaiser Encore IEM with Double Helix Balanced cable, Westone W80 IEM w ALOaudio Ref 8 cable, Westone W60 IEM, Shure se535 Ltd with Westone Bluetooth Wireless cable-amp. Mark Levinson No. 5909 Wireless HP.
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