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DAC suggestions?

Hello!

I’m looking for a new DAC suggestion for my 2.1 office room set up. The room is 12x11 ft with a 10 ft ceiling.  The EverSolo DMP-A8 seems interesting.  Currently, I have the following:

Rotel CD14 (Water 1m RCA cable)

Michi X3 (Audioquest Thunder 2m Power cable)

Rel T/9X (Rocket 88 3m Rel Sub cable)

Sonus Faber Sonetto V Walnut (William Tell Zero 12ft Speaker cable)

iMac, using Roon and Tidal (USB B 1.5m Carbon cable)

I listen to jazz and RnB mostly and prefer a warmer sound. I’m happy with my current setup but feel adding a DAC and digital streamer would be nice versus going through my iMac.  Thank you so much for your time.

wisemenofgotham
lmr27
28 posts
 

Get a Chord TT2 and be done with it.

mike4597
144 posts
 

As others have suggested, I would remove the Mac from the system and go for separates for the DAC and streamer.  Some have suggested an Innuos streamer, and I have a Stream 1 with Phoenix USB output on order, although your budget says go with one of the older used Innuous models.  For the DAC, last year I upgraded my Schiit Bifrost 2/64 (now in my office at home where I do use my Mac Mini M4Pro) to the Gungnir 2,  and I am exceptionally pleased with the sound quality I am getting from my system—Rogue RP-7 preamp, Odyssey monobloc amps, Fyne F702 speakers with two Rythmik Subs, with 4’ Silversmith Fidelium speaker cables and a mix of AudioQuest and Morrow interconnects and Ice Age Audio power cables.

kennyc
1,971 posts
 

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