Looks like Vincent has spilled the beans already, I thought he was going to announce these mid January.
Since catās out the bag, Iām one of the early adopters for the d1-unity with the streamer board and live power upgrade. Should be getting it mid January, very excited!
Looks interesting. I am a little suprised to see the only thing the dropped out of the line up is the d1-single tbh. I kinda expected the triunity would replace the twelve.
Also, pricing seems a bit weird over all without the removal of some other stuff IMO. The single ladder per channel unity being 2x the price of the core is particularly striking imo. Would love to see some internal pics to see if we can figure out what exactly changed tbh. Given the fairly similar pricing of the unity and the og rrp of my dual, I may message vincent to see if he thinks it would be an upgrade or not in a few months times
Just seems a bit crowded to me, especially the Unity and the Six, and the direct and triunity.
Iām hoping it results in a plethora of Six and directs suddenly coming up for sale at good prices, but I suspect his extraordinarily generous trade in policy probably means it wonāt happen.
Direct and triunity difference is ~25%, thatās quite a distance imo
Itās a bit surprising the Unity is supposed to be the new thing and it has the Six so close to it, there I agree.
tbh I never managed to follow the totaldac SKUs and itās always been overwhelming and off-putting for me as a potential customer. The sound descriptions actually make it very enticing for what I prioritize and enjoy but I never managed to figure out what I should aim to try and get ahold of.
Your right of course, I just usually think in terms of doubling cost for steps up, Iād argue even the twelve to sublime is too close to move a lot of twelves, if your already considering a $36K DAC, why not get the $50K oneā¦
Heās at what now 8 different SKUās, just seems excessive.
My guess is he isnāt going to sell the older ones, they are there so you can calculate the upgrade price
Well shit. I was going to wait and upgrade to a mk3, but might as well go for the sublime, weāll see I guess lol, although would like to try all three models and see whatās up. At least he still has the twelve listed so it must still be a worthwhile model despite the new ones I guess lol. That being said thatās really interesting that none of the new models offer direct output unlike the twelve and direct
This stood out to me as well. It seems basicaly everyone who has heard both thinks the direct + driver is a massive step up from the six, so im very very currious how this goes. If its esentialy the driver as an output stage I would be pretty damn interested tbh
Would def agree, I think having those direct outputs are quite magic with the right system even without drivers, so itās really interesting to see him no longer include a bypass or outputstageless option
I think he did say itās a fully redesigned discrete output stage, so I wonder if he just basically created a better output stage than in something like the drivers and doesnāt feel like it needs direct output anymore? Who knows, I would ask, but Iām sure he has his reasons lol
Wouldāve been even better if they managed to hit the $100 mark but oh wellā¦
And more Senn, not music earbuds specifically. Price is well, maybe this tech gets cheaper over time.
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So I bit and ordered a FA-10 Limited. It seems like a pretty nice offering after doing some research on some of their other models. Looks like a really clean build with some high quality parts. They and Rebel Audio have really compelling stories, continuing to operate in the midst of such really unimaginable difficulty. Their amps are pretty high value too in terms of price/performance, seemingly.
Also, Vitalii at Flux Labs was very helpful in providing a bit more info on how some of the different models compare. They kind of have too many models to choose from imo!
Iāll give some impressions after getting it and letting it burn in for a while. Now itās time to sell some other gear to pay for this! 
(like Schiit BF 2 OG black, Lyr 3 silver, and Jotunheim 2 black if anyone is interested. Iāll be listing soon with pics, PM if interested)
Nice! Congrats and keep us posted! I remember a couple years ago I was looking at them as a potential cheap option to drive the more demanding planars. So fun to have new gear to test, enjoy!
the steel bracelet sounds cool too! I thought I hard heard they went to either Poland or Romania with family.
Good question, I hope so but definitely didnāt ask him.
The several times he emailed me back with answers to questions it was kind of the middle of the night there, so it made me think he was in Ukraine perhaps and only had power certain times of the day. I know intermittent rolling blackouts are happening there due to damage to the energy infrastructure. Iām in PST time zone, so itās like 10-11 hour time difference (later) from meā¦ But who knows.
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