Who else can't sleep the night before their fancy new gears arrive?

@mbmi  beautiful indeed.

@baclagg  YIKES! It's always the worst to wait all day on delivery day and get nothing. I share your pain. 

@pdreher haha me exact same. 

@toro3 Yea it is a beautiful piece. But I don’t agree with some of the design language and there are quite a few things I would change about it. Like too many buttons on the beautiful frontplate. Nothing I’d need to press that I can’t do with the remote. I'm actually thinking of ways to hide all the buttons and still keep it cosmetically pleasing. 

@agisthos "For new audio toys I basically refresh the online shipment tracking page relentlessly."

haha this is so me. I laughed and looked to the side when I read this.

I was sitting on the front deck as I was stalking the DHL van location on my phone.

@agisthos ahahaha, this is very true. I'm looking at you Topping D90SE. You mfer. 

@clearthinker I don’t intend to debate what you are saying. But what you are saying doesn’t apply to my specific situation. The amp I have and the DAC I bought are meant to go together. You can say it was "mandatory" to buy the dac. There’s an optical cable that does not carry audio signal, that cable connects the dac to the amp to unlock a current-injection function and allow the amp to perform optimally the way it was designed.

Please disregard my basic stock cable, I’m awaiting delivery of a better one =P

@tump350 Ah, another ultra owner. We are a rare breed =)
I really like it too. I am planning to exploit its fabulous headphone output and maximize my purchase *insert evil laugh* Muahahahaha.

I have a few questions and will PM you in a minute, hope you don't mind.

@tump350 Thanks man.

@agisthos Yea I have the matching amp. The picture a little above your post is that amp. Be wary the C1 is its own integrated thing and doesn’t necessarily benefit from a BMC dac, All other BMC amps do.

About your pre-amp question, if you use headphones, 100% get this. I’m not aware of anything better. If you have a matching BMC amp, 100% get this as well. You can say the amp is handicapped until it is unlocked via the CI link. Other than that, maybe a direct talk with BMC can yield more result than me.

Do look into the Sonnet Morpheus though. Based on what I’ve read, it is a stupendous dac with a stupendous pre-amp.

@elliottbnewcombjr "I thought Pratt Institute had made a mistake admitting me"
probably gonna be the most humble thing I see today. Haha love it. I can say since you worked your butt off, They didn't make a mistake in the end. I guess more college should accept "mistake students" =P

@waytoomuchstuff haha TY and I agree with you. Things like this bring out the kids in us.

Also I'm like you. I turn on some universe stuffs and I fall asleep before I even try to fall asleep. My go-to was Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey with Neil Degrasse Tyson before netflix removed it. The Quantum series with Brian Green is also incredibly ENTERTAINING and sleep-inducing at the same time. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. 

I believe it's called Exploring Quantum History with Brian Greene. Not 100% sure.