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Location: Fenland
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I'm Bob.
WTD low cost but decent DAC
OK looks like I have a few pennies spare (Not a fortune though) and Richer Sounds are doing the Cambridge Audio DAC Magic 100 in black for £129.
Anyone got anything else for sale that sounds good, but at a lower price than that.
Initially it will go into my Quad 405/33.
I can travel a few miles around the Fenland area, alternatively I am often in the Heathrow and London area and points in between.
I will consider anything?
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I'm Mike.
Take a look around for a Beresford.
Should be a few 2nd hand around
TAD CD / DAC / Pre, Technics 1210, MCRU PSU, Mike New Bearing & Platter, Stillpoints LP1 weight, Speedy Steve Ebony armboard, Fidelity Research FR64FX arm, Ortofon SPU. Aurorasound VIDA Phono Pre Amp, TAD Power Amp, TAD E1 speakers. Coherent RTZ 3 Grounding box, Coherent grounding cables, Creaktiv racks. Coherent Mains Cables. SR Blue Fuse. Interconnects : Coherent and Yannis 223.5 Connect Litz. Coherent speaker cable. Audio Magic Transcendence Conditioner. Coherent mains socket. Mains Filters : , PS Audio Harvesters, Russ Andrews Purifiers, Tacima, Vertex. Black Ravioli and RDC supports. Electric Beach S1NX platforms for TAD CD and Technics. Ferrite chokes everywhere except the above. Ears, brain
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I'm Alan.
You could go with the Xiang Sheng Dac 01A that is available for under 100 notes and gives a very good account of itself.
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I'm Geoff.
I have a Musical Fidelity V-Dac in excellent condition. Could do for £70 including delivery. Excellent sound
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+1Originally Posted by Firebottle
An amazing DAC imo.
It's horses for courses, as usual, and all a matter of opinion, but imho I've not heard a better DAC and I've owned loads up to £3k rrp.
There was a seller in Belgium, but he seems to have run out of stock.
Here's the cheapest atm on eBay from China https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/XiangShen...wAAOSwtXBauKi8
You can get them in black as well.
It's got a very decent headphone amp as well, but probably best to run it without the pre-amp section (internal jumpers and it arrives without the preamp setting on).
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I'm Alan.
You've not been listening to the right DACs then Jerry, but my current one is £2K new
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You've not been listening to the right DACs then Jerry, but my current one is £2K new
More than enough.
The XS is a DAC-for-life as far as I am concerned.
I moved my first one on, and spent silly money on well-reviewed DACs that don't hold a candle to the XS for me.
Wattya got, then?
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Jerry, I do have a suspicion that some of these XS aren't all equal. I'm inclined to believe that yours is excellent but the one I heard was glassy and to be honest, very fatiguing. That one happened to be Al's.
More than enough.
The XS is a DAC-for-life as far as I am concerned.
I moved my first one on, and spent silly money on well-reviewed DACs that don't hold a candle to the XS for me.
Wattya got, then?
I recently picked up a M2TECH Young and it is much much better than the XS of Alan's.
I also read there are different Circuit boards in the 01 DAC range too. I think they are a bit of a lottery.
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Interesting.
Fair enough.
I've had two now, both with the same sonic signature.
Perhaps I like 'glassy', although I would call it classy!
I've had a Young. It didn't stay long.
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I'm Alan.
I've now got a Bel Canto Dac3 plumbed in. In comparison the XS is splashy in the treble and ill defined in the bass.
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