I've been thinking about getting a dac was wondering if its worth getting one and opinions on which dac is the best, I listen to most of my music from my laptop (all flac files) connected to my stereo connected from the headphone jack. The headphone jack probably isn't the best connection. So any thoughts, help, or opinions are greatly appreciated.
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Submitted By: lunxbox
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Location: Edmonton Alberta Canada
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dac questions and opinions need help !
Posted: July 25, 2012 - 12:00pm
Submitted By: jackfish
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Location: Western Wisconsin
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A good DAC connected to a line level input on your receiver
Posted: July 25, 2012 - 5:18pm
should sound much better than from a laptop headphone jack. How about price range and what kinds of digital output does your laptop have?
Submitted By: lunxbox
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Don't really have a price
Posted: July 25, 2012 - 5:39pm
Don't really have a price range whichever one is a decent bang for your buck I'll set money aside for, as for my laptop it doesn't have anything besides the headphone jack and hdmi so I was thinking one with a usb. I had two in mind either the cambridge dac magic or the emotiva xda unless someone suggests something else that would be better
Submitted By: jackfish
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I'm partial to the Schiit Bifrost USB DAC.
Posted: July 25, 2012 - 5:50pm
Can't accept that upsampling stuff.
http://www.tonepublications.com/review/the-schiit-bifrost-dac/
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/schiit2/1.html
http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/schiit-bifrost-digital-analog-converter
http://schiit.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=7
Submitted By: commsysman
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Location: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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DAC
Posted: July 28, 2012 - 10:24am
The Cambridge DAC Magic or Plus is my suggestion.
Submitted By: mrvco
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I was looking for a DAC to
Posted: August 23, 2012 - 9:56pm
I was looking for a DAC to connect to an Airport Express and couldn't resist the sub-$300 price on the Music Hall DAC15.2. I haven't connected it via USB yet, but it does a very nice job connected to the AE.
Submitted By: jackfish
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The Audioquest Dragonfly
Posted: August 24, 2012 - 6:06am
is getting a lot of positive buzz right now.
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