Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am about to order 3 of these, why? Because they work! There’s all kinds of things you can say about price and what you expect... blah blah. I am actually a professional in the A/V industry... so I can speak with just a tiny bit of experience. The 1 star reviews I’ve read here seem... meh. If you’ve got a taxed computer, old, loaded with things... lots of stuff going on. Maybe you’ve visited to many NO-NO websites..? I can tell you that I’ve used these in several installs that are demanding, they get used every day with sweaty fingers and people that know nothing about electronics. Here’s the rub, they are used on laptops that don’t surf the Internet, don’t look at questionable web pages, they don’t run printers... have thumb drives or anything else. These laptops have a network connection, ITunes and a NAS, that’s it. No problems, not one. Any problems have been environmental and easily fixed. By environment I mean, cables getting unplugged, mute buttons getting hit or the DAC getting shut off on accident. Other ones have been the laptop having issues because “user error” It’s a solid device with a small foot print, the volume knob is smooth and works very well. Lemme just check a couple of these one star reviews (I have several of these running in the field, every day 6hrs a day with 0 equipment issues) First, touchy volume knob... dude. First you have the volume on your PC, then you’ve got the volume on the D1 After that you’ve got the volume on your amplifier. I don’t know what equipment your running, I can’t guess if your volume on your amp is acting like a gain or it’s attenuating. Is it adjusting the amplifer inputs or outputs.. 🤷‍♀️ If you’re gonna write a one star review to be helpful, list the equipment you’re using. This device works great, for the money it’s awesome for what I am using it for. Read all of the 5 star and 4 star reviews, if you have a questionable computer... you might have a questionable outcome. This DAC is built to be robust, still you can’t blame the stereo in your car because your transmission failed. I’ve used these on mainly MacBooks and a few PC’s, all without issue. They’ve heald up and done their job.