Recent content by aburany

Thank you. Indeed, this (and some other PC sound cards with the external units) are rather marketed only for their headphones/headphones amp abilities and not as generic DAC to be connected to any speaker system. I really appreciate your input and efforts here; I will just go with a decent sound...

Well, there is Sound Blaster AE-9 for example which has a kind of external, desktop positioned DAC (I believe just for this reason). So it's like a PC sound card/external DAC crossover. It costs a lot (around $300), but also great by specs and reviews with e.g. 129db SNR. So to put it...

Thank you shadders, I didn't say I was unhappy, it's more about wondering/asking for an opinion. I actually like the sound of the Zensor AX 1 a lot, regarding its size and price. There's a few-year-old Marantz amp + Dali Zensor 5 sitting in my living room, and of course, I like that setup much...

In short, my use case: in my home office, I have a pair of Dali Zensor AX 1, connected to a high-end PC through SPDIF/TosLink. Here I'm listening to music exclusively from my PC (Tidal HiFi/master and CD). Situation: My SoundBlaster Z's SPDIF out died; I want something better than the...