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I'm in the market for a DAC to get music from my phone/laptop/old CD Transport (with coax out) into an analogue amp.
Ideally something with USB, coax, toslink and Bluetooth/wifi, but I accept that compromises may be necessary (or another box to go from Bluetooth to USB).
i understand that the very best DACs are sophisticated beasts that employ all sorts of tricks to minimise jitter and provide clean signals, but haven't actually heard the difference myself. And then one has "reclockers" which seems even more bizarre!
How much difference DO they make? Is it like Spotify vs CS (eg anyone could tell if on a vaguely decent system) or like spending £100 vs £10 on interconnects (where most couldn't?).
i would say that there is a noticeable difference between iPhone headphone out compared to the DAC in a Google Chromecast Audio. Presumably a dragonfly would be noticeably better than that?
The DACMagic 100 seems to do much of what I want, but it seems a bit long in the tooth and I'm wondering if a 101 or a 200 is just around the corner? Or if there's an obvious competitor. The £50 Lindy device looks a bit rubbish, but maybe is as good as Chromecast?
Ideally something with USB, coax, toslink and Bluetooth/wifi, but I accept that compromises may be necessary (or another box to go from Bluetooth to USB).
i understand that the very best DACs are sophisticated beasts that employ all sorts of tricks to minimise jitter and provide clean signals, but haven't actually heard the difference myself. And then one has "reclockers" which seems even more bizarre!
How much difference DO they make? Is it like Spotify vs CS (eg anyone could tell if on a vaguely decent system) or like spending £100 vs £10 on interconnects (where most couldn't?).
i would say that there is a noticeable difference between iPhone headphone out compared to the DAC in a Google Chromecast Audio. Presumably a dragonfly would be noticeably better than that?
The DACMagic 100 seems to do much of what I want, but it seems a bit long in the tooth and I'm wondering if a 101 or a 200 is just around the corner? Or if there's an obvious competitor. The £50 Lindy device looks a bit rubbish, but maybe is as good as Chromecast?