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Can you afford and aquire an external DAC that supplies a higher quality anolog output than the DAC circuits in your SACD player, or reciever? The answer sounds like it is a yes in your case. The size of such an improvement may or may not be very large, but it should be noticeable, depending on how good a DAC you get.
The $300 - $600 range offers several units that could work. Lately I've been recommending the $250 Audioquest Dragonfly DAC to people wanting to get started down this road. But its strength is its USB (its only) input. You'll need a unit with S/PDIF input(s).0
Hmmm ok so it seems 400$ would get some improvement.
At this point, i'm wondering what DAC within my budget, would u guyz reccomend that has BOTH analog input and optical?
Do you mean different digital inputs, SPDIF coax, SPDIF toslink, or USB?
Oooops right what was I thinkin! :O still new to this ball game :-D
Right, so that means i'll have to output the Sacd player via coaxial and Ps3 via toslink.
http://www.tonepublications.com/review/the-schiit-bifrost-dac/
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/schiit2/1.html