My QLS Hi-Fi QA660 took 3 hours to sound good and about 400 hours to break in about 15 days @ 24x7 on repeat to no longer improve. To me it sounds like a $5K VRDS-type transport (this is a Teac/Esoteric very expensive clamping system for disc transports). Now maybe my Von Scheikert speakers are challenged.
The QA660 is a revolutionary transport which uses no disc, therefore no wobble or disc jitter. The internal clocks are very high quality low jitter. The engineers designed and built this generation from scratch, from the ground up, at great time and expense to approach a goal of near perfection in transport technology. Rather than using a disc this is done via an SD card, about the size of a postage stamp. An SD card reader is provided free with the unit to record uncompressed music formats from your computer to the card.
The QA660 ($550) has choices of 5 digital outputs (optical toslink, spdif coax, bnc, aes/ebu, and i2s) which interface directly to the QA100 ($390) digital amp w/ 5 matching digital inputs. This amplifier is equal in greatness, and the QA100 and QA660 interface symbiotically with perfect clock timing and synergy. They sound terrific together.
The QA660 as a digital source obviously also interfaces superbly to outboard DAC’s.
The QA660 challenges the super high-end and possibly very expensive world class systems. Eureka!
The QA660 is a revolutionary transport which uses no disc, therefore no wobble or disc jitter. The internal clocks are very high quality low jitter. The engineers designed and built this generation from scratch, from the ground up, at great time and expense to approach a goal of near perfection in transport technology. Rather than using a disc this is done via an SD card, about the size of a postage stamp. An SD card reader is provided free with the unit to record uncompressed music formats from your computer to the card.
The QA660 ($550) has choices of 5 digital outputs (optical toslink, spdif coax, bnc, aes/ebu, and i2s) which interface directly to the QA100 ($390) digital amp w/ 5 matching digital inputs. This amplifier is equal in greatness, and the QA100 and QA660 interface symbiotically with perfect clock timing and synergy. They sound terrific together.
The QA660 as a digital source obviously also interfaces superbly to outboard DAC’s.
The QA660 challenges the super high-end and possibly very expensive world class systems. Eureka!