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| Is low cost DAC worth it? $79.99 with great reviews: https://apos.audio/products/smsl-su-1-dac | |
| Digital Dilemma @bigshutterbug - That’s interesting. I need to try out some more DACs, I guess. Further to the Onkyo CD player, I returned mine to the vendor. It’s a great bang for the buck, but I found for the occasional time that I listened to a CD, it sounded... | |
| Fiber Optic Internet @versitron - my mailbox at home is flooded with your promotional material and now I'm getting it on my Agon thread. I'll pass thanks! | |
| Streamer upgrade - best path forward @nglazer +1 | |
| Digital Dilemma @recklesskelly - thanks | |
| Digital Dilemma How about this: Cable Modem >Ethernet cable >LHY SW10 network switch>SW10>Gustard R26 DAC (using 10mhz master clock from SW10 vis BNC to DAC)>pre-amp>amp>speakers The switch also has SFP ports to hook up a fiber optic cable ... | |
| Digital Dilemma @recklesskelly - thanks for confirming @russ751's comments. Do you know of any reclockers that are on the market as a lower price than the Innuos Phoenix? That thing is almost $4k! | |
| Digital Dilemma @axeis1 - I see the Auralic G1 has an on-board DAC, so you're suggesting to bypass it and use the Chord DAC? | |
| Digital Dilemma @axeis1 - thanks for your suggestions, I'm always on the hunt! | |
| Digital Dilemma @russ751 - Yes, I was actually looking at this unit from LHY Audio which doubles as a switch as well: https://www.beatechnik.com/lhy-audio-sw-10 I'm hoping that this, hooked up to my DAC via a BNC cable, might get me closer to my CD benchmark! | |
| Digital Dilemma @russ751 - Boy, that sounds like a pretty hefty investment there! @mofojo - It does look interesting, but it's sold out...Darn! | |
| Digital Dilemma @soix - yes it was the Pulse Mini that I had on order and no, a CD drive and internal storage is not important. I will re-visit it...Thanks! | |
| Digital Dilemma @soix I actually bought and paid for a Innuos Mini when they first came out but got tired of waiting for delivery, so when I found my DAC could stream, I cancelled my order and got my money refunded. In the meantime, I also picked up a Roon Nucle... | |
| Digital Dilemma @vthokie83 The general consensus here is as you state, so I will get a different streamer, my confusion now lies with do I get something like an ifi Zen for a few hundred dollars or spend $5,000K+ (which I don’t have anyways) as others have sugges... | |
| Digital Dilemma @bigshutterbug @kairosman - To test things out, I just hooked up and older Technics (model #SL-PG 450) CD player via RCA’s directly to the pre-amp and it sounds pretty bad compared to the Onkyo playing through the R26. The R26 doesn’t have any RCA... |