Mick3

Hi, Reading between the lines it seems like it's the loaner Burson 160D you're talking about. It is strange that it would change so much in just a few days. Maybe there is a fault after so many listeners, so many packings, re-packings and journeys by post. Is it the dac or amp section that seems dull Mike?

It's great that bhobba keeps us updated on the Burson Dac, but giving lots of IMHOs are pointless until the thing has a few hundred hours on it.

Same problem for me-updated to new version, now it simply won't play gapless albums. When I try, Pure Music and itunes crash. Great sound, but needs a fix pronto.

Hi RKL. It is of course a long way to ship goods from the US to Australia and we have 10% GST, much like VAT. However, Wavelength products sold in Aus appear comparable in price to the States. An example is their USB-Spdif unit. $900 US over there, $1000 here. The Ayre mark up, as iWonder suggests, is just pure greed. Are they really telling me it costs $1700 US, per unit, on top of retail, NOT wholesale, to import to Australia. Ayre will wonder why their Aussie sales are zero. I'll take iWonder's advice and shop around. Thanks for the opinions though. Nice to see a different view.

Just asked about the price of an Ayre QB-9 dac from their Australian importer. $4400 Aus!! That's about $4295 US. Current US retail for the QB 9 is about $2500. The Aussie dollar is trading about one for one with its US counterpart. Strangely Wavelength gear costs about the same here as it does in the States. Does each Ayre unit get its own seat on the plane? Sadly that new dac won't be an Ayre. Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh here, but it seems a hell of a mark up. Wavelength it is.