#asherdac

[clonesaudio-blog]

Wonderful review of the ASHER DAC @avrev.com

"......When I sat down for what turned out to be numerous, long listening sessions, I was able to rather quickly determine sonic personality of the Asher DAC. I heard a very precise sound stage. With superb separation of recorded elements, and near perfect tonal balance. During the review period I was going through a serious archeological dig into my classic progressive rock library. I streamed literally dozens of so called Krautrock, or German experimental bands, as wells as staples of the Canterbury scene, like Gentle Giant, Soft Machine, and space rock kings ike Hawkwind. I did this not only because I love the music, but it is also a great test for a DAC as the music is complex, challenging, and generally has lots of dynamic range......

.....There are a lot of DAC models on the market to choose from. And just about all them now decode DSD, even higher sample rate DSD. When deciding on a DAC for your system I believe that sonics come first, and then feature set, build quality, and the design follow. Funjoe of CLONES Audio has hit it out of the park on all fronts in my humble opinion.

The sound of the Asher DAC is absolutely on par with DAC models I have had in my system over the past year costing more. In some cases it outflanks them on feature set and definitely equals them in build quality.  I make no claim it is the last word,  spending much more may get you more, but boy, I can see most astute listeners being quite impressed."

http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-accessories/acoustics-eq-room-tuning/clones-audio-asher-dac.html

[clonesaudio-blog]

More about production of ASHER dac. I know some of you might think I did something stupid. Not many of you will care. But I want to say I insist on those stupid ways just because I really want to do the best what I can! You all may not know the difference but I do. So I can't cheat myself if there still have room for me to do anything like this. Details are everything... The mini board between the main board and the USB module is the i2s isolation board. I decide to add in after the final tuning... You almost can't see anything from this angle, but..... Once you have a look from here. You will find something difference. Most of the design are connect by the socket what make things easier. But I still insist to soldering those connection directly one by one. Anyone did kind of the modifications like this will know the difference! Problem is it really takes time and hard to return!!! When you know even the fuse makes changes. Why not the contact seems more important? That's why CLONES units wiring the IEC socket directly point to point!