Question Best DAC for MP3 Audio

[Gray]

Pathos, granted; but Satire is now more evident in your posts here --I suppose mostly for the enjoyment of other "Well-known members", looking down your nose or noses, at MP3, naivete, etc..

I hope it's only time that the OP wastes here. Post #3, well-liked, was the sufficient contribution.

Wow - classic examples of how things get misunderstood on forums.
I just have to put the record straight.

First of all, Pathos is the name of his headphone amp manufacturer.
Secondly, @Friesiansam is not 'looking down his nose' at anyone, about anything.
Fortunately, the few people who've ever done that, don't last 5 minutes on this forum.

I took his comment to mean what it did....that MP3 is not as bad as it's often cracked up to be....that's all.

 

[DougK1]

Apologies my bad, slip of the tongue, I meant lossy MP3 😂

About time you came back to rectify your mistake! You've gotten people confused and in trouble over your slip of the tongue You know where the naughty step is

 

[Jasonovich]

About time you came back to rectify your mistake! You've gotten people confused and in trouble over your slip of the tongue You know where the naughty step is

I was out and about, I thought I check on my comments.
I felt like the proverbial seagull, I flew over and rained down my deposits and people below clearing up the mess after I left the scene.
Hahaha 😂 Oh my Gawd. I truly meant to to say lossy. It was a Freudian slip but I'm sure, the good shrink will put his hands up in the air 'don't blame it on me, you done it yourself'.
Yeah sorry, moving forward, I'll sanitise my comments better before posting😂

 

[hawkman2213]

Perhaps stating the obvious, DAC's don't play WAV, FLAC, AAC, MP3 or any other computer audio format.
It is the media player that calls the appropriate decoder to convert these formats to Linear PCM.
The LPCM is packed in a protocol e.g. SPDIF or UAC1, UAC2 depending on the connection between DAC and PC. Modern USB receivers using UAC2 have two modes. PCM of course and RAW. The latter is used to send DSD to the DAC.

If the DAC has a Bluetooth receiver, the audio is compressed by the sender using the codec negotiated between sender and sink. The Bluetooth receiver inside the DAC decodes this LPCM.

Dumb question from a newbie - if I have a receiver with a DAC, and connect it to a CD player via an optical cable, which DAC is creating the analog music I'm hearing? The receiver or the CD player? My Outlaw Audio receiver has a DAC, as does I assume the DVD/BLue Ray player I use to play CD's. Connection is via an optical cable. For the money, it sounds fine. But I recently tried a different dedicated CD player, using the same optical cable, and it sounded harsh and somehow congested. How can it sound different if the DAC in the receiver is being used for both? I'm missing something for sure!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Dumb question from a newbie

No such thing as a dumb question! If the output is digital (which optical is), the conversion has to be done further down the line and therefore the amp is doing the job. If the output is via analogue stereo cables (RCA/phono) then the job's already been done by the disc player.

Ergo in the situation you describe, the amp was doing the job for both disc players.