Is a DAC still needed?

Most CD players manufactured these days have good quality built-in DACs. Would an external DAC then becomes unneccesary?

50jess12-19-2011 4:35am

paulsax Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 275 posts 12-19-2011 at 04:57pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I would suggest that its only a matter of time before the dac becomes the audio source and the cd player is a historical oddity like 8 tracks. not sure I see much logic in spending lots of money on a CD player. Course thats just me but I bet that as time goes by more and more folks fall into this group.