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. Lol, with the video edit, it LQQKs like the dog gets teleported. Acid Jazz, Funk & Brass 🔈🔉🔊

Nice job on explaining how to pipe signal through the components. Everything has a DAC in it, so I have been hesitant to buy first and ask questions later. “Transport” is an excellent word. I’m old enough to think “tuner” but digital. Except now, the incoming signal is often the best sampling rate available, whereas in the old days inbound FM was relegated to an afterthought. …Y’know, wouldn’t it be fun if they’d send the unmixed tracks and let me mix it for MY room with AI? 🤔 Cheers!

I don't really see a connection between watches and audio gear unless there are mostly snobs in both hobbies or something, that would be a connection. The only other connection is that both are one trick ponies, one just tells time and the other plays back recorded music while both offering a choice of aesthetics (without which there would be no hobby in either).

Listening from my office desk with PC as source to FiiO BTA30 Pro in TX Mode. Then wirelessly (BT/LDAC) to MUSE HiFi M4 (DAC/AMP); cabled (silver-plated OFC) to Hidizs MP145 planar IEM's. The BTA30 Pro set me back about $125 (2 years ago). Under $100 today. The MP145 was about $120. The recent M4 purchase, about $100. I must say, the M4 is a terrific device...ZERO regrets with this most recent purchase. It even has a clear Gorilla glass window to view the circuitry! The MP145's...incredible planars. The BTA30 Pro...an audiophile's Swiss Army knife if there ever was one, with TX/RX/DAC modes and a hefty basket of codecs (LDAC, AptX HD/LL, AptX, SBC, AAC). Supports USB-C in, COAX in/out, OPT in, OPT out, 2 x RCA out (L/R). I suppose one might accuse me of being CHEAP! In any event, the music sounds great to me.

Unique product to be sure. But I can't help but feel they missed a big opportunity. Modern DACs need: HDMI +eARC. No ifs, no buts. Additionally the cost to implement I2S (IIS) isn't much and is an open standard so for a product like this is also a no-brainer. Especially at $1,300USD. There will be future projects and hopefully they'll get included.

Great review as always. Will you be checking out the Evolution Center or the Nano’s?

cheap !! RCA connectors 🤣

If some of you doofusses don't like what he has to say, why are you watching? I believe we're living in the golden age of high fidelity. What's wrong with that?

Right on. What a unique piece.

How about the Ohm Walsh 2000?

Only for fellow Brits, but I'm getting Blake's Seven ORAC vibes (Google it American friends)

I bought my Lintons from Crutchfield, .....da bomb..... Great guys at Crutchfield.

YOU DA MAN

For the price point I would rather get Gustard A26.

If you require equilization you already lost the simplest systems always sound the best period

I have a music reference rm5 tube preamp I have owned for 40 or so years has no tone controls and sounds great have to detox the selector knob about once a year perfect no equalizer ever to many possibilities for distortion

Preach, CheapAman. As long as the reviewer is up front about personal biases it's not a problem.

Very tempted to buy these. Its the made in China that worries me.

Another great review from the not so cheap audio man.

Speaking of conversations with your kids about hifi. When I was a little guy my dad had a MCS component rack and I thought it was the coolest looking thing ever so I used to pretend it was the control panel for a spaceship I was flying to mars. He didn’t find it amusing so his belt and I had a conversation.

That is a very beautiful piece of kit for your channel and environment. I don't care how it sounds. That look makes it perfect. I am sure it is the bestest DAC ever and something everyone needs. Thanks for sharing this amazing product and good looks with us all. Stay well, brother.

Just got the Erish 3 Amp a few days ago to stack with my J2S AK4499 DAC loaded with Sparkos Op amps. Great bang for the Buck Stack. Grandpa Joe(Not Willie Wonka's Grandpa Joe) is a very skilled Woodworker. My E3/J2S stack is all Zebra Wood with Dovetails and it looks 🔥 I REALLY like how the AK4499 DAC Chip sounds. I also have the Topping DX9 AIO and it has an AK4499EQ DAC Chip. Best AIO I've heard

A really important aspect to think about this DAC, is the resell value. I think it's not affordable enough to "play" with personal taste (transparent, wood, yellow, purple) and then try to resell it expecting to get back some decent percentage. So for me and for that reason, it's a very tough sell. Hope they come with some standardized, good looking ( maybe aluminium, and display?) DAC, for when you want to sell and want something else, or you ended up not liking it in the end, or just because life happens.

I'm sure there is no bias -- absolutely none -- in this video. I mean, like pushing Emotiva or the few other brands here. After all, would a company really send him something with his brand logo on it, for him to talk crap about it? Of course not. I appreciate him mentioning it, but boy has this channel changed -- to where $1,300 devices are "cheap" and are being pushed for obvious reasons.

Their design aesthetic is so off-putting to me I don't care what it sounds like or what it costs. I would never spend money for something that fugly.

Could you mention the artists you listen to under the vid.

Well I Dandy a Dayzee - In my best Doc Holliday voice. They should use that in the advertizing....... and send me a unit because I Dandy a Dayzee.

I love Gashelli Labs. They think out of the box. I just wonder when I could purchase one of their amps in CLEAR GLASS. Any way Love what they are doing! Perhaps you could push to make SEE THRU COMPONENTS 😅

Great review....and looks very interesting... but sadly like all things in hifi...its only ever as good as the next best or unknow thing! But am curious if you are going to try the holo audio cyan 2 at some point?

How can they make "affordable" products when they have such a fancy building with a swimming pool? Affordable to who?

I love your channel but it is starting to feel like an infomercial. Maybe just me. Still got nothing but love for ya.

I've been watching for years but I know after all this time I cannot take your advice seriously : Every other week you tell me a piece of equipment from the same category is " the best ever". It starts to become humorous ....

I have so much noise in my apartment's AC that a 12V DC for a DAC would be awesome. I could probably figure out a way to run it off a motorcycle battery, ...maybe.

What I’d like to see as a comparison is the new Holo Audio Cyan DAC, which is a $1080 DAC which is purportedly a stripped down version of the $5000 May DAC that sounds almost as good. Also, my understanding is that the $1350 is just the starting point, from which the price goes up significantly. Not to mention, the new LAiV HARMONY DAC that has multiple reviewers falling over themselves gushing about it, though granted, now you’re talking maybe double the price of the base Daysee.

I loved my Geshelli Labs DACs. Still have 1 connected to my PC. Unfortunately, for my Stereo system not having a remote to change inputs was a deal killer so I sold my 2nd one. All my sources are digital. SMSL D400ES is what I have now on my main system.

Well praise the load it comes in other cases cuz that see thru is ugly as sin! Remember those old phones? Wish I could forget..

But still no remote? Hmmm...

Another review channel is reviewing $87,000 dollar stand mount speakers today, so while $1,300 isn't cheap, it is within the realm of possibility for most of us, unlike nearly 100 large speakers.

I just don't know what to do with myself. I don't have a streamer or a dac😢

Would the Dayzee be a good match for me? I'm an older guy not knowledgeable to do with streaming. I'm streaming from my iPad through audioquest cobalt into headphone amp now would like to step up.

Un-necessary TALL.

Pretty cool but I don't come close to listening to enough digital music to justify it. I am curious if they'll build power amps down the line.

Geshelli labs needs to give their amps names. We can call the plexi glass amp the M13/40.

I just got off the phone with them! Amazing customer support!

How about your cambridge streamer/Dayzee combo for the digital front end and a Schiit Freya+ and two Fosi V3 mono's for amplification. This would lower the entry costs considerably and might sound darn good.

Are those the Emotiva towers that are super power hungry? The ones that A. Robinson just reviewed?

Somebody comments that because the case is glass plastic (whatever it is) its not electronically shielded. Is that true Mr Cheap Audio Man? Sorry if its dumb question, but i don't know about that type of things , but i have read many comments on interference is bad for audio signals. Thanks.

In 1966 I built a speaker in a clear cab meter box , 5 in Lafayette woofer ,two 2in tweeters wound the inductors put the tweeters on back took polarized caps hooked back to back to make nonpolar speaker caps. Won the science fair in 10th grade

Thanx Randy! Great vid. Geshelli is effin awesome! Could you imagine every company operating like geshelli? Synergy is crazy how you find it. For me, it’s a topping dac/pre running to 2 g’horns in mono hooked up to q acoustic 3030i’s. No matter what I rotate through my main system, I go back for pure emotional listening and enjoyment of the music. And, I’ve got a musical fidelity A1 that is addictive.

Any small company would be lucky to have Randy as an enthusiastic spokesperson. Hopefully the relationship is real enough that Geshelli Labs would listen to critical feedback from Randy, about any of their products. The Dayzee, fully naked to the world, does seem impressive. The teaching aspect of the plexi cabinet is cool and it lets you see accumulated pet hair and dust sitting on the componentry inside, but I'm not going to say it's a "beautiful cabinet". Is it "unique, whimsical, dramatic, teachable and personalized" ? Absolutely. But of course it's what's inside that really matters.