My michi m8s don't seem to suffer from being powered on and off by the kids in the lounge when they want to watch Netflix or something and I think they are class AB. As raif71 said nothing to worry about, I was sort of not being too anal about the burn in. In fact I might be wrong /alone on...

mine has been on for a few years not really noticing any difference these days although would have to turn it off to hear, which would interrupt the burn in

Windows to SMSL results in a non bit perfect result, it just reports what is being sent from the PC, can't see that changing, but as reported, android base on dedicated streamers can get round it

Am I missing something, the eversolo sends out different stuff to the SMSL all the time, but trying another Dac gives the same results, all a million miles away from windows interface

will give that a go Jon L, i'm just on the vanilla A6, but as always looking for that extra ounce of improvement:thumbsup:

I'll have had mine three years next month, no red light or issues, so been on since then, bar a power cut

I'm a quiet listener, too, did buy a thingy that you can hook up to amps, never used it though, but think the 1080w into 8ohms from the michis might be a bit much and will stick with the Singxer. Great to hear about options that you can do.

Must be a good lot of fun having so many amps to swap in and out of a system. I bet you can really tell when something works and when it doesn't. I think as the Singxer is the only one I have known, I'm certainly not qualified to know how good it is, but it performs it's job for me, so no...

Nice, will do some experimentation and see what comes. Thank you

Really good to know DeckHifi, seems like a good time for some experiments, need to get some rca cables but won't be going down the major money route, can't afford it for one, but very keen to see if mixing balanced with SE yields better results

Is there anything much for old folks like me with the SE, balanced suff? Am I likely to hear some changes?

Just going back over the later posts, really interesting about the balanced v SE. I have the Michi M8s in the cinema room and not thought about trying them anything other than XLR, but might be worth a go based on what people are saying

I actually have a mojo, used to use it when doing train journeys. Would that be a a better fit than that smsl? Started getting into this when they fired up a dragonfly dac I think it was, and then the chord mojo, and I bought the mojo on the spot, just sounded so much better, even with my old...

Good to know, didnt realize that, although bit of a newbie compared to most on here I guess👍

I don't think you will be disappointed with your purchase, do think some would want more power driving the HE 6SE, do use it more as as pre, driving the AE1 actives.