I owned it for about a month but sent it back. Dirac was late and still undelivered at that point so I can’t comment on that. I just wasn’t happy with the overall sound - a bit too clinical for me but that's personal preference and MANY people love theirs. For the price it wasn’t terrible but wasn’t what I was looking for. From a functionality standpoint it was great though and I still sometimes think about going back just for that reason. Especially since I never got to experience how it would sound with Dirac.
One thing I would note is it takes a while to burn in and had a large improvement once it did. The soundstage especially changed, starting out as normal, nothing special, but after burn-in it was pretty remarkable.
Check out the long forum post about it over on AVSForums
Dirac is one of the reasons I am looking at it. I like the bluOS easy to use and having everything but the amp in one box looks good to me as well down size a bit.
I'm been loving the Dirac 1.# + VST plugin since 2014 and this week I finally got the same working in Dirac 2.4.1 -- I'm exporting the filters to a VST plugin (hosted in JRiver26) running on the same computer. Would be cool to try exporting a filter to an Arcam or NAD streamer.
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