Audiobyte HUB Arrived to Complete the Vox/Zap/Hub Stack

So after a long wait, a lot of angry e-mails and several customer cancellations the Audiobyte Hub has finally arrived.  I have lots going on getting ready for AXPONA with a new preamp and monos in the system along with the Playback DAC, etc... so formal review will come in a couple weeks.  

The good news was that all current customer orders were fulfilled and there was a spare so I get to actually listen to it.  First note is that it is Roon Ready at this time.  Appeared in my "Audio" menu.    

Initial reaction is that it sounds very good.  I am comparing it to the player portion of the Antipodes K50 (zone switch in roon) and in less than critical listening I am not hearing obvious differences.  I am noticing that the HUB is consistently at a higher resolution than the K50.  In general, the K50 makes every DAC sound about one price tier better than it is.  Very superficial listening is that the HUB might do the same for the Audiobyte. 

We shall see and I will report back more thoroughly in the next few weeks.