I recently received my Skylla II DAC and have about 15 hours on it. This replaced the Ayon Cd2s which I was using as a DAC. When comparing DAC's I usually do not expect a night and day difference between units, especially as prices go up and diminishing returns kick in. Well when I hooked up the Ayon Skylla, fresh out of the box, my jaw dropped! 16/44 files started sounding excellent and the differences between 24/96 and 192 were now very obvious, a difference that I could not tell with any conviction previously. The dynamic range with hi-rez material was such that I had to bump up my preamp volume by 1 to 2 notches to get to same level of audibility as with 16/44 files. And Wow! the macro dynamic shifts were breathtaking. I have never heard my Harbeth's SHl5 sound like this before. I was anxious before buying the Skylla as I never heard it in my system, but its performance has really floored me.
Cheers,
Sid
Cheers,
Sid