Best DAC to use with Polk XM tuner?


What kind of success have any of you had with an outboard DAC with the Polk XM tuner? Does an outboard DAC improve upon the Polk's audio RCA outs?
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Showing 1 response by dunkmeister

I somewhat agree with the points in some of the other comments, XM radio sound quality is not worth going out and spending big bucks for a DAC, the source and not the conversion is probably the limiting factor. However, I have two moderately priced DAC's that I have run my Polk tuner through, an Aragon D2A2 and a Channel Island DAC-1 with the upgraded power supply. The CI is the better match. While I would not upgrade to the DAC solely for occasional XM listening, if that is one of your main sources I think the very modest price you can pick up a DAC-1 for, now that DAC-2 is on the market, make it an upgrade worth making.