I’m not sure what there is to discuss.
It’s a yes no thing, to you in your system, they either sound different or they don’t.
I personally hear a difference between DAC’s and IME those differences only get bigger as your chain improves.
I will say there is negligible if any difference in FR from DAC’s, which makes quick A/B switching hard to differentiate. Peoples descriptive language is also often misleading, talking about more pronounced Bass when they are really talking about dynamics etc.
I think this is one of the more difficult things to learn in the hobby. Not only do you have to learn the listen for the differences but you also have to learn how to best describe those differences. Warmth sometimes can be described as full bodied when they’re different things. Also Instrument separation and location which tends to be more of a detail thing can sometimes be confused with staging and depth. So it’s best to double check or clarify meanings.
My BF2 went out last night. Heard a pop in my cans followed by silence. No relays are switching when I power cycle or switch inputs. I suspect it to be the power supply because the transformer is rather loud now and is causing the case to vibrate slightly.
I left mine on and sometimes I would hear relay clicking in the middle of the night while everything else plugged into it was off. I was always afraid it wouldn’t work when I woke up… funny enough it died while I was using it.
