Never heard it so can't comment on if it has a sound or not. @audio-satisficer , only looked at the review. They show a potential problem running at full volume. May be useful information. The rest of the review makes me wonder if how it behaves is intentional, a bad unit, or bad design. No idea without another one. I can think of no reason for the jitter being bad as an intentional choice. Maybe we just get too hung up on DAC specs and most things are not audible?
Some delta-sigma designed require that the signal stays below -6.1dB of full scale.
I have not read the review, and I am new to DACs… but I usually try to keep a DAC below -6dB just to be safe… and not knowing what is inside of it.
if it is that, then I am not sure there is a problem, unless someone feels that they need to run it flat out.