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Hi Andre I hope it goes well for you. As you asked for feedback - I have over the last three months been looking at the Primo very carefully as a purchase for a desktop solution at my workplace office. In fact I have read everything on your site including blogs and have searched for and read every review possible - several times. FYI like many on this forum I own several DACs or streamers. Most of them are or were many times more expensive. My difficulty in assessing whether to purchase the Primo is the lack of reviews by known reviewers - particularly on the DAC performance and USB input cleanup. I think your efforts would would be assisted by reviews comparing the quality - not to Pi solutions - but to the better value ESS we see now such as the SMSL SU-8 or more importantly the Pro-ject S2 Digital which apparently has very good USB jitter management and DAC implementation. I don’t have those but there are enough positive and detailed reviews out on them to enable readers to understand their likely performance in their own system. They are not streamers but they do compete for purchases with your Primo. Hans B has done a useful review of the Primo but again his discussion is comparing your product to Pi solutions which is not where you are really competing or positioning. As as a minor point the one thing that finally stopped me from actually buying three weeks ago was I use Tidal sometimes - it costs me nothing extra to use it in my Aurilac Lightning DS software and nothing extra in my Audirvana software - and for many of us we have those or similar products. Yet with your product the cost will apparently be hundreds of dollars extra over two or three years to be continue to use it with the Primo. So so in summary I am sure there are many who are interested to buy but have been held back principally due to lack of reviews relevant to their decision making process. Best regards and good luck with it Vincent

Hi Guys - I mainly buy downloads these days or listen via Tidal - any suggestions on where I can buy a download of one of the better versions? Thanks Vincent

HI thanks for the suggestions. Has any owner compared the quality of input from toslink compared to usb to see do they sound as good as each other on the Brooklyn ? (Presumably they both go through the same DAC circuit ?) thanks

Hi guys..am thinking of buying a Brooklyn - to mainly act as a headamp at my study/desk or in a quiet lounge. Would most likely be feeding it from an Aurilac Aries Mini which I have just bought. It will be a bit of a long cable run from lounge to study - 20 feet to 25 feet. The Aries Mini coax out will be used for other duties so my choices seem to be either a long usb cable or a long toslink cable. Any suggestions on which will work better for the Mytek? (do both go through its DAC or does the toslink bypass its dac in which case usb seems the go) If I use a relatively cheap usb cable then I can add a clean up device on the end such as wyrd from schiit - unless you tell me the Mytek clean up is all I need. (I have some good usb cable in short runs but this is longer) I don't do DSD and doubt I ever will, have some 24/96 and look forward to listening to rebook MQA and Tidal MQA many thanks in advance for your thoughts - Vincent