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I have a DCD-1600NE player and can't for the life of me figure out how I would use my Dragonfly Cobalt to handle the DAC duties. Could someone explain?
Seen and heard were the new Polk Reserve R200 bookshelf loudspeakers ($749/pair), which are derived from Polk's Legend series. The speakers mated quite well with Denon's new DCD-1600NE CD player with advanced AL32 processing ($1499) and PMA-1600NE 140Wpc integrated amplifier ($2099). (The Denon DP-400 belt-drive turntable seen atop the rack was present for display purposes only.) Surprisingly, digital processing was performed, not by the CD player's internal DAC, but rather by a diminutive AudioQuestDragonFly Cobalt USB DAC.
I have a DCD-1600NE player and can't for the life of me figure out how I would use my Dragonfly Cobalt to handle the DAC duties. Could someone explain?
I'd love to be the person to offer an explanation, but I don't know enough about the inputs, outputs, and pathways of this equipment to do so. It would have been such a simple question to ask, had I thought of it at the time. My apologies.
The only way that I know would be to use a Coax to usb female adaptor on the DCD-1600NE, Dragonfly connects to that, and analog out to the integrated.