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| Get a new CD player or external DAC? Auronthas, the Benchmark DAC-1 is an extraordinary product. I have compared its sound carefully with that of two other DACs at equal or higher prices. I found it brought out details in the recording like nothing I had ever heard. Get a listen if y... | |
| help ... BAT or QUAD "Is BAT regarded as a notch below QUAD?"Nope. But what do you care? It's how you respond to the sound that counts. You're lucky because you have been able to listen and compare in the same circumstances. If you have not been able to make up your m... | |
| MD-10 usb dac volume setting Mimberman has it right IMHO. Going into a preamp or integrated, the only case in which I would choose to lower the computer's (or the DAC's) output level at all would be if the final output from the DAC were too much for the amp or preamp's input.... | |
| Get a new CD player or external DAC? A great standalone DAC, and more musical to my ear than the Benchmark, is the Apogee Mini-DAC. However you can't get it new with USB any more, you have to go FireWire. If you want USB you have to find it used.One more thing: the quality of your tr... | |
| Cd Player Suggestions Interesting to see that recommendation for the JAS Audio Musik 1.2. This player doesn't come up as often as it should because it's a tremendous contender at its price, which falls right into your range. That's a new price, by the way, not a used one. | |
| Best CDP under $500?..... Used market You just might find a Shanling CD-T80 or (a bit less likely) a JAS Audio Musik 1.2 for your money, and either of those would compete at the top of the class. | |
| Sound improvments I would not go to separates before I upgraded my cables, if I were you.You don't need to save much to upgrade that Monster speaker cable. A set of Audioquest Type 4 would blow it away, I know from experience -- and it's biwire ready.Your interconn... | |
| What would you buy Sub $350 Firewire/USB DAC Great post Music prof ! | |
| What is your dream turntable? Spotheim La Luce. There's one up for sale here now. Dang. | |
| Best transport for $500.ooish There are two Esoteric P-10s for sale here and at the risk of losing them myself I will tell you to go for one. It won't play DVDs though. Good luck. | |
| Basic Question: What is Needed to use a DAC? Use the digital out. Optical cables are mostly plastic and inferior to the metal cable you'd use on the digital out. If you can find a glass optical cable, though, that might be worth a try. | |
| Basic Question: What is Needed to use a DAC? Your CD player needs to have a digital output on the back panel. Usually this is a single RCA jack.You unplug your CD player's left and right analog output cables and plug them into the DAC's analog outputs instead. Then you connect your player to... | |
| Used monitor under$600 with good bass low levels The Triangle Titus ES has twin input connector sets and can be biwired or biamped. (I have a pair.) So can the Comète ES I imagine. | |
| What would you buy Sub $350 Firewire/USB DAC OK, since the OP has generously undertaken to inform the curious of his discoveries... there are two DACs at the low end which interest me. One is the Beresford, from the U.K.http://www.beresford.me/others/main.htmland the other is the VALAB menti... | |
| What would you buy Sub $350 Firewire/USB DAC From your description of the kind of sound you like, and judging by your preference for the MF B1 and the KEFs, I'm sure you would like the Apogee very much. However you would either have to luck onto a used one already equipped with a USB card (A... |