Conflated topic since i don’t see much conversation around Gustards. Will break out if it gets to congested.
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Has anyone given the Gustard U18 a fair shake? Does it stack-up to the similarly priced Singxers?
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I’ve tried the U16 and I liked it compared to the su2, it is more neutral but also is more soft than the singxer. I haven’t heard the new one so I can’t comment there
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How did it handle placement and spatial sense?
Good but not remarkably at least from memory, I didn’t have that much time with one
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I think the value with the U18 may be with the clock sync if that’s an ultimate route you want to take. It’s a new unit from the ground up, definitely looks interesting.
There’s also a comparably price U90 which I didn’t even know existed until I wrote my piece on DDCs. The more I looked though the more I liked the Singxer SU6 just because of it’s power implementation.
No first hand experience with any of the mentions here but I’m sure they’d all give quite a good leg up over entry level reclockers. Just do your own research. I suspect that they’ll all hold their value relatively well but maybe look to score something in the used market.
The Gustard being new I doubt that would be an easy find. Maybe open box?
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Sure, but the cost of a good stand alone clock is significantly more expensive than that unit, same with dacs that actually allow you to sync clock, so I really don’t know how much value it would add. Also even if you have the ability to sync together, it isn’t always beneficial (depends on the dac)
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Maybe it’s just a sales hook?
I’m just happy that there’s so much talk on the forum lately about upgrading digital signals. It warms my heart.
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Would you say the Singxer SU6 to be the sweet spot in that mid tier next level reclocker realm? There are a lot of good picks, the Matrix X SPIDIF 2 … a lot to pick from.
just curious if anybody ended up buying the U18 ddc? it looks like a pretty sweet unit just not sure how it performs relative to the SU6 and X spdif 2…