Denarips and Vinshine split

I tried the Ares II and sold it pretty quickly. In my room acoustics, r2r just doesn't do it for me. And I never wanted to go up the Denafrips latter because of their lack of remote. However Alvin is a great guy and I wish him the best with this unfortunate situation for Vinshine. I still dealt with him for non Denafrips products, like the Jay's cdt2-mk3 and LHY SW-10. There are very few gentlemen as helpful and courteous as him in the business.

@mbmi

I looked at the new LAIV dac.

It seems to me there will be a need for improvements in the design before I would even consider it. First, it has no AES input and that kind of hurts when you have 1k AES cable with nowhere to go. And most importantly there is no ext master clock connection. I understand it will recognize an external clock via I2s, but that's not enough, there are other components needing a master clock that are not I2s, like my Jay's cdt2-mk3, which by the way is connected via AES. Anyway thanks for the info as I was not aware of the LAIV dac but it just doesn't fit my system right now. It does have a nice remote though, and that was always to big miss with Denafrips.