But the balanced output is not real balanced (differential), right? It only serves as an adapter..

Fuckin’ hilarious!

Who doesn't prefer going down on the bigger pipes?

Is this even better than the audioquest cobalt?

I don't see what the big deal is. For a turntable at the price it's at, it doesn't sound bad. Not everyone can afford the super high end stuff. If you don't like Retrolife don't buy it. Besides, there are plenty of other brands that look the same as Retrolife and probably built in the same factory. Too many snobs out there.

Awsome review, nice sidemark to the delusional Lachlan, great products, the measurements at ASR are stellar, especially for such a cheap product.

"Diane prefers to go down on the bigger pipes".....

Got myself a Magni Unity (with DAC) and called it a day.

How does this guy now have a million followers?

Shaur was always gonna lose this fight. No one's going to saide with him cause he's an asshole and he's up against the guy we all know created the Objective 2 and the O-Dac.

I'm happy with my Cambridge A100.

Great review as usual but you're going to get some hate from the Lachlan's of the world for that comment about more more expensive dac's and amp's not sounding better.

These look like a nice package for someone looking to go into the HeadFi space. I’m good ..tho I’ve had some of my friends ask for an entry level set up …. A great and fun video🍤🍷

The JDS amp/dac giant knob thing works perfectly for my strange use case. Allows me to toggle between volume control and output to powered desktop speakers, then immediately back to headphones.

The soundstage of Bish’s favorite pipe is a little lacking while listening through optical. I recommend USB.

“I didn’t pay for these, I expect better” I… don’t think that’s how it works but okay, I’ll let you cook “They didn’t engrave these for me which they offer as a free service to anyone who buys them” Did you buy them ? Do you know about economics ? Is it entitlement ? What’s going on here First and last time viewer of all 1 minute and 17 seconds, Yikes

Can’t find „Hit me hard and and soft“ on Discogs. Order number, please!

Somehow my original Atom Amp died in a move , shame as I liked it. Maybe will get the 2

It feels like I have found the real-life Dr. Stupid. Unfortunately, he's not nearly as entertaining as the Ren + Stimpy Dr. Stupid, and he likely knows even less about what sounds good.

Yeah. You're good. But I'm already full with the cheapest schiit stack. I won't change it.

Helmholtz is blinded by the car lights. Please watch your mouth while using the name of the big organ downer. Cool review for cute device.

JDS/Topping/SMSL ❤

Great review!! Love your sense of humor . (Diane prefers to go down on the bigger pipes...) 😂😂😂

You sound like a fun guy at parties.

Listen children of music and listen carefully, The only cable, I repeat the ONLY CABLE that you can see a difference in by being able to extended to a maximum of 3 extra inches is the one between your legs with the help of Masters and Johnston's cable management system. Thank you for your attention.

Atom...what a good name for a company. Interesting that things so small in size can do such big things. Blow up an atom and it can desyroy a city. Blow up a whale or an elephant....and nothing! Of course be sure to be kind to our animal friends; they're truly adorable and will be your best most loyal friend ever...like the one on our host's leg, that is always SO well behaved. They seem inseperable What breed is that fine well behaved animal? I misplaced my reading glasses about a month ago. Really nice looking girls sitting across the table. Hard to pick which one is the hottest. If you ask your average person if they can picture an atom, they say something like " It's kind of small but yah I think I can picture it; maybe something around the size of fruit fly dookie."...Wrong! There are way less grains of sand on all the Earths beaches combined, than the number of molecules in one drop of water. Look it up. And an atom is much smaller than a molecule. There are 1.6 sextillion molecules in a drop of water. Speaking of numbers, 2.6 watts sounds like vintage Lloyds, Soundesign, Yorx and Clarinette amp territory. But if they're quality watts, it's better than 5.2 medocre watts. There used to be a record cleaning product called the Watts Dust Big; not to be confused with Dirt Bags, like those who do not like Diane Bish. Some $2,000 turntables from the 1980s used Atari game console AC plugs as their plug in power supply. Remember the game Barnstorming? The graphics were a little primitive, but so much fun.

"Diane prefers to go down on the bigger pipes." Kinda hard to type while I'm laughing my arse off. A great review, but your audio sounds like you recorded it while sitting on the shitter.

I purchased the ATOM 2 STACK, It powers the Sennheiser HD600 effortlessly - I reach max volume at half of the volume knob - 12' o'clock position. Every thing is smooth - the volume button is smooth and the gain and selector buttons feel solid. Highly recommend. Its really that good.

I have the ATOM 2 amp and dac! They are great. Power my senheisser HD600 at below half volume on low gain!

Diane looking good on that Hitting Hard album.

That one girl had to be fake. No ways theres someone who doesn’t know about Diane Bish.

3 days before Diane Bish "the Dish"'s birthday!!! My Lord! How are you going to celebrate? Perhaps the Burnt Orange Crew can get you a rare Japanese import vinyl!?!? Perhaps "The Joy of Music" on cassette? I'm sure Goodwill will have a few mint / mint- copies. Happy Days.

you could upgrade it with a $600 RCA cable, but wont include a battery pack connected to the cable that will cost extra

Hi. I enjoyed your review, but I still don't understand your comment about the monos not being reccomended for the Lintons. The video link you refered us to goes to your criticisms of the Darko Linton review. I have watched that video twice and cannot find what you are referring to. The link comes up as you mention that the v3 monos can handle reactive loads, and then you state they won't work for the Lintons. Please elaborate further as I must be missing the obvious. If you won't elaborate, I'll have to contact Diane Bish directly!! :)

I gotta give DMS some slack here. I’m an LTT fan and Linus is very open that they like to go completely nuts on a product class to make it more engaging. I’m pretty sure that Linus & team very specifically requested DMS to bring the most absolutely crazy gear he possibly could just to showcase the audiophile rabbit hole. He does even say that you could have “half the gear for a similar sound”. The other point is that DMS was sent over specifically to represent Abyss.It can be tough when selling similar products to call one out as ‘the best’ when they may occupy different niches. Perhaps this was the younger days of DMS’s learning, or maybe he was hamming it up for the camera, but he does know his shit. He’s built a number of pretty crazy setups, designed headphones and built an open source speaker (which measures quite well). I’d give the man a bit more credit before you rip apart his every word.

Best reviewer I have seen on youtube. wow.

Is this supposed to be a comedy channel?

what are those duck speakers?

lovely sincere review here great work. awful awful awful attempt at copying you awful jacket color.

no holes on bottom is a mazing

Sabre DACs usually blow.

Lmao Chris!👍

Oh. This is from 2 yrs ago. You started recording in the mid -afternoon. Your recent videos are shot later. 😅

Hey, thank you for the review. Can you please let me know, if ok to use one of those to drive 2x 70w surround speakers in my 7.2.4 home cinema, with onkyo av receiver, that rewuires external amp to drive 2 additional back speakers. To turn them on with the amp im planning to use 12v trigger out on my amp and relay before this amp psu. Hope will not have any bumps on switching.

Please Sir, what amp/streamer + OUTDOOR speakers would you recommend for $500??

1. Truthear hexa 2.simgot ea500 LM 3. Artti r1 4.nice hck f1 pro 5. Kefine delci which one should I pick among these iems? Or rank them

Suing today means nothing. I lost 2 inventions that I sent into a company and they just changed it a little and made it under a new name, If I told you what they are everyone here would say '' I use this daily '' Now I have another invention people would love to have but after seeing no money for the others im just going to sit on this one.

Gentlemen, I have 2 48 volt 5a like fois audio za3 amplifiers and I connected these amplifiers monoblock, and the muses01,muses02,muses03 opamps play very nicely, and my audio source is my computer with an ASUS X99 DELUXE ll motherboard, and the speaker is Monitor Audio Silver 100 (7G) As a musical style, I listen to rock, blues, pop, latin pop and I'm currently continuing with muses03s. By the way, I buy all my opamps from the original MOUSER and DIGIKEY, and in addition to these, I also bought the original TPA3255DDVR amplifier chips, but I have not changed them yet, but the ones on the amplifier seem to be original, so I am not in a hurry to change them.

I love it when such an excellent video drops in my KZbin feed. I was fishing about on the Zu Audio DWX speakers after seeing the ASR apparatchiks going off on him over Zu. A reviewer was doing the exact same thing…parings … trying to explain opportunities for the Zu DWX speakers to fit into your life or whatever… I miss the reviewer reviews but I get just doing reviews

Not inviting you to any of my state of the art barbecues . After attending many audio shows.I know longer claim to be an Audiophile. There are some great people but have met to many arrogant assholes with closed minds like the cable and wire deniars and I won't buy that speaker it's made in China