Hi there to all,
I had a audio session this afternoon at my highend shop .... was going for a new DAC
First i listen on my own Teac vrds 10se cd player (modified with tentlabs clock)
The first was the dac magic.
Hmm not unpleasant but not my taste at all, little death sounding, no real living soundstage its all in the middle of the stereo speaker setup.
Switched to the rega dac (note: i don't listen to the sound for just half an hour) dacs and other equipment needs to warm up a little.
Whoooo this is more like it the rega sets a nice stereo image, lots of weights depth and good focusing of instruments and vocals.
Price is allready making the rega twice the price, but the rega realy push the dacmagic away.
So this is pure based on 16bits listening (don`t need the rega for pc) i am a audiophile and made lots of devices, this rega is a killer for its money.
beware the burn in time is expected to be a 2-3 days, don`t switch it off
So dacmagic vs rega dac is a bit unfair.
Dacmagic nice for a low budget stereo system till 1500 euro as compleet system
Rega dac will be good for upgrade cd drives who needs to be upgrade there dacs from 1500 euro cd drives only.
Lets say the rega dac will do its best in systems like 3000-5000 euro.
But if you add a good solide 12V power transformer to the dacmagic hmm there will be a big difference in sound quality.
The Dacmagic is fet by a wallwart , very bad power available course wallwarts makes allso HF distortion.
dacmagic = 400 euro
rega dac = 675 euro
incomparable