Borderpatrol Dac SE

I'm new to my BP dac purchase. I installed a SR purple fuse and a mini watt ez80 tube. I'm the 2nd owner of this dac. It has only the digital coaxial input. I like it because it is a straight up musical dac. Simple hook up and has a very natural life like sound quality to it. The BP dac is replacing a Eastern Electric mini max dac that died on me. The BP dac is much more natural sounding than the EE dac was. The BP dac for me is a dac that gets out of the way of the music. 

BP Se-i here.

A few comments : 

1) 100 to 150 hours (break-in) is a must (it is horrible out the box)

2) A good power cable is very important (mostly to address the bass issue)

3) Ditto for a good usb cable

The BP doesn’t sound impressive at first glance like other dacs, it simply sounds right / natural and I realized that ‘sounding right’ is probably more important than the last bit of resolution (at least for me). If you want to listen to your system, it is probably not the best Dac but if you want to listen music…

I rolled in a Bugle Boy Holland ez80 rectifier tube. This definitely woke up my BP dac. I read that different rectifier tubes won't make much difference in sound quality. That is a false statement. 

My Border dac was new, 3 weeks only in system. 

Outperformed my another 6000$ dac from the first 

moment. More so after break in... Amazing dac.

Try Furutech Flux-50 filter on dac power input.

Not cheap but this thingy improved everything

connected considerably.

For the power cord I'm using my trusted Cabledyne 10 gauge pure silver cord. It's plugged into a Audioquest Niagara 5000.