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Just got the recently-announced Lumin U2 in for review. FWIW, it didn't take more than a day for my daughter to exclaim: I hate California (that is to live there - too many people, too rude) on a recent trip back to our old stomping groups. CCTX is a dump is so many ways, but it's become 'my dump' with a lot of hidden jewels. Aerodrome is a local distillery in Corpus Christi TX of all places. The one I tried was a special edition cask strength 'Cowboy', which is now a year later like a million dollars (not worth that much, I'd pay $150, but not $400).Īnyway, I found Texas Bourbons to be really good, namely stuff from Garrison Brothers, Still Austin, Texas Ranger (not pictured) and Aerodrome. The one below (leftmost) is the regular Garrison Brothers, which was not as good as the one I tried. At the Doubletree, I ordered a Garrison Brothers bourbon just to try something local (I had the waiter run down the list of bourbons they had). My first exposure to Texas Bourbon was a year ago at the Emotiva x Schiit event. If anything I think it's companies like Topping/SMSL and forums like ASR that have promoted the temple of SINAD which have ruined Chi-Fi's reputation in the past five years. The ET-3 represents the best of what Chi-Fi has to offer. The chassis of the ET-3 is well dampened with a thud and doesn't ring. The ET-3 is a decent weight for its quarter form factor size. Although I wasn't sure back then, I expected Shanling to carry forth this approach.

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Second, Shanling tended either dampen or massload their transports by design (something I've done extra as mods to with mediocre cheap CDTs). A Rega Planet CDP which was also a top loader (with mechanism mods) sounded great, that is until my youngest shoved a carrot into it. I noted that the ET-3 followed the top-loader philosophy of the ancient Shanling CDTs. First of all, I like the sound of top loaders. When I first saw the ET-3 at a distance, my magic eight ball foretold: IT WILL BE GOOD.

And at $729, it's priced right! This is something that normal people can afford without eventually becoming 65 year old goofball incels disowned by their wife and kids.

Shanling ET-3 sitting on up of an Emotiva ERC-4