XLR or RCA for my new DAC

Still having that little boy on Christmas morning should say :)

The only other time I can remember having this kind of revelation was 20 years ago when I went from B&W CDM NT to Dynaudio Audience (I'm now with Evoke)! No more tweaks for this cat, I'm good!

@fuzztone the 1582 is an HT processor. I'm using Simaudio Moon Titan HT200 5 channel amp...

Appreciate all the replies, thank you...I know it's all so subjective but I'll draw on those here who have much more experience than I as this is my first DAC. I have always used Transparent ic's and speaker cables. Though I'm going to try Voodoo for the XLR ic's with the DAC. I do prefer Voodoo and Shunyata over Transparent when it comes to power cables...


Well I'm off to FedEx to pick up the DAC (wicked excited). Think I'm leaning towards going the XLR route. What I'm not at all excited about is going into contortionist mode to connect it. Hopefully I'll notice a decent enough improvement in sound just adding the DAC so I'll never need to wonder if the RCA would have a different (better) sound than XLR, lol...Much as I love new toys connecting them is an absolute logistical nightmare!

Thanks again All!

My post was removed (maybe I overdid it on the exclamation points, LOL), but I posted an update, all I can say is I am truly speechless at what this DAC has added! Right out of the gate I immediately noticed a true audible difference! I have no measurements to prove it other than my experienced ears. I honestly didn't know what to expect if anything adding a DAC, but I could not have been prepared for this big a difference! I'm just giddy. Having that little boy on Christmas morning moment right now...This Bifrost is truly the Schiit!

Even my shittier discs (my cd player is a 101 disc carousel) that obviously were not the greatest recordings have truly come "alive". Can't find a better word to describe it. Even Iron Maiden "Live After Death" has more detail, and this is definitely not a cd you use to show off the "detail" in your system...

You know I went way over budget for the Bifrost but this is truly worth every penny...Having that little boy on Christmas morning moment right now...

Just wanted to thank you all for taking the time to reply and share...

@guy-incognito, thanks it's fun writing my impressions of the DAC :)

Unfortunately damn work gets in the way so I'll have to be away from my new toy for the next 9 hrs or so...HOWEVER, I just put in for Monday-through Wednesday of next week for a little r&r time with my new Bifrost. Gonna spend most of that time re-listening to my "new";) cd collection! That's how super crazy excited I am over this thing. 

You know what seriously? I've listened to Iron Maiden "Live After Death" literally countless times over the last 25+ years. I mean over and over and over. Every road trip, every night with the boys going back to when I was a late teen Live After Death always came with or was playing. It's a staple in my cd collection. And I am truly going to ask that this cd go with me in my coffin (I will never go any journey without my Maiden :)). It's classic Maiden so you just pop it in and turn the volume up to full and just jam out!...Last night was the first time I listened to it differently for the first time ever. I didn't blast it, I didn't want to. I heard detail and nuances I truly never have before (and maybe that's because I've always listened to it so loud that about midway through the first track the ears go numb-but it's Maiden that's what you do). At the risk of coming close to using the typical cliché, I won't go there and say it was like listening to it for the first time, but I will certainly say I listened to it and heard it very differently for the first time...That's about the best way I can convey what this DAC has done for me...

Who'd have that you could ever use the term "nuances" in describing an Iron Maiden cd, LOL!

Thanks @scratcha! Oh it has gotten better, and God knows I've been playing the piss out of it! 

Thanks for the advice with the cables. I had already ordered a pair of Voodoo Essence XLR's. They seem to be working quite nicely with the DAC. I wanted to go with Transparent but just too costly, got a sweet deal on the Voodoo through The Cable Co.