Firestone Audio - Custom Cute - USB DAC

Amazingly lively, smooth, rich, and full-bodied: a neutral-warm psychedelic audio dream.Has a narrow frequency range, but uses all of it: the 'sunshine' brights sparkle but "20Hz bass" lovers may be disappointed.Perfect for psybient, downtempo, mellow electronica, dub, etc. Musical preference and mileage vary.Pair with a neutral / non bass-oriented amplifier and headphones - I am running HD650's with a Schiit Valhalla 2 which it complements well.USB-only with only one set of RCA outputs and one power switch; WINDOWS 7 DRIVERS CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE FIRESTONE WEBSITE.The top is blacked-out transparent plastic with the Firestone Audio logo in white-lighted lettering.Absolutely recommend for the price ($100) unless needing other connectivity options. The Firestone Fubar line has similar characteristics at a higher price-point.

Be very, very careful with this unit. It's only compatible with Windows up to XP - so if you have anything from Vista onward, you're screwed. I tried connecting it via 4 computers - Vista, 7 and two 8.1's - nothing. This particular vendor, HiDef Lifestyle, does absolutely nothing to help you once you've figured that out, as well. Zero. They're the worst of the worst.I see that they've now dropped the price by $50.00. They must be desperate to get rid of these poorly made antiques. BEWARE - of product and SELLER!

Unfortunately I read the other review after I bought this. It's true: it's not compatible with anything after Windows XP. Like, who uses that anymore? Zero satisfaction from these HiDef Lifestyle freaks, either. A bad deal all the way around.

Nice little DAC. Happily neutral sound. Paired with the Firestone's class A headphone amp. System drives my HD600s or my Grados. This is my second generation of the Firestone Cute series. Running this with Windows 7 x64 and I have tried it on a couple other systems but no Windows 8 yet. For those people having trouble with anything over Windows XP, either there is a driver issue with their motherboards or they forgot to install the driver. This is an async USB unit so a driver is required, since Windows does not natively support USB async audio.