Chord Qutest is my DAC choice. Great DAC, really smooth and detailed, love it to bits.
I know, I know, boring, it’s not expensive (relatively) and it does what it says on the box.
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Chord Qutest is my DAC choice. Great DAC, really smooth and detailed, love it to bits.
I know, I know, boring, it’s not expensive (relatively) and it does what it says on the box.
great stuff, keep em coming. fantastic diversity so far with no one the same :eek:
Added this purifier from ifi to my vena2 usb.. Has a nice effect and has improved it a good bit.. Good buy.
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I wanted a half width unit to fit my rack. I use a Border Patrol NOS. Like it a lot, cost was around £1k from the manufacturer in the U.S. (an ex-Brit).
The best ive heard is the Dac built into my TQ Claymore, its usb only but marries up with my Innous zen very well.
For streaming i use a seg/dorado/cca into the tqc...as a bang for buck streaming solution its excellent vfm.
Up to a few months ago was using an M2Tech Young.
Thought I'd try something different and went for an ex-demo Matrix Audio X-Sabre Pro (https://matrix-digi.com/en/products/318.html) and paired this with a Matrix Audio X-SPDIF 2 (https://matrix-digi.com/en/products/314.html). Bit of a pattern emerging here :)
Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 Digital is what I have and a powersupply from ebay... Seems ok to me...
Ran an M2Tech Young for a few years after moving from a Rega and various Beresfords.
Both great dacs, the modded Young bettered the Naim dac to my ears when I did a direct comparison.
Both It and the Beresford responded well to modding and improving the power supply.
Currently enjoying my PS Audio Directstream dac.
Free firmware upgrades of its FPGA, like a better dac for free every year or so.
Has the Bridge II network streamer card, so acts as a Roon endpoint, does Spotify connect, Tidal and Qobuz.
Very unique technology wise in the way it goes about things.
It sounds different...just music playing in the room.
Responds really well to good cables too, particularly balanced into its matching preamp.
I2s into it from the Oppo sounds terrific, great for both music n movies.
Better sounding than Ethernet directly into the Directstream in fact.
Happy with my modded Oppo as transport for all things digital, until PS Audio release their Octave Server.
2nd System I use the Logitech Trnsporter playing my Roon library, great dac in that an AKM AK4396 multi-bit Sigma-Delta chipset. Proper attention paid to galvanic isolation, quality of power supply all that good stuff.
Way better than a Touch, ran both for a few years.
Sounds great.
Never got on with Sabre Dacs, found them edgy and unenjoyable, one of the JKenny ones I heard I think?
Yulong Sabre DA8 DAC. Before that a Rega DAC, Cambridge Audio Dacmagic isodac, the flat one where the transport sits on top, I’m still using the transport. I also have QED DAC in the attic somewhere too. The Yulong is the best so far combining detail with listenability.