Yestarday I went to Warsaw to ger used Pacific version 2020 with vol. reg. balanced. I was very disapointed when I plugged it in. The dac went straight to my SE-833 monoblocs using vol. reg of Pacific. It was very bad, I was in disbelief, how can anyone listen to this, no guts, no bas, no energy. What the hell! I tried to use volume reg. of my amps., same thing I had to set volume very high to get some lousy sound. I was very unhappy, and thought I am going to return it asap. My Tambaqui was singing straight to the amps with amp ovol. reg. This was not, it was bad, very bad. But I was thinking why would anyone buy this and sing about it how great it this. Well 6am I got up instaled DAc along NAT Magnetic preamp. What a relief it was when I started to play my favorite test songs. Wow, wow, wow. Day and Night experience. Song after song, I could not sit still. What a beauty was coming out of Horning Agalme. Everything prior to this experience seems like a child play, now this is real music. I know now I need super super preamp to get even better. Maybe Magnetostat maybe, Allnic 7000-10000. Any thoughts about possible preamp contender?