WestCoastFun:I may have missed it but I really am curious about the setup... how is it connected to the source and to the amp. What cables etc???
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I'm in the process of buying & selling stuff, at the moment I use my Macbook pro with USB or optical connection (both cheap non-branded cables), into the DacMagic. Though soon I will have an Airport Express. Then I have a Cambridge Audio interconnect from the DacMagic to the amp (RCA), I don't know the name of the cable but it was £30. ÿ
I will be selling my 540C as I never really use it, and am trying to minimize due to space and my headache of tangled cables.
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The idea is that i can play all my files on my computer and external HD through firewire 800, and internet radio through the DAC.
Then i have my iPod as another source should my internet fail, and my DAB (which I don't use much), will probably go through the DAC too, (I haven't tried it yet).
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I am happy with the DacMagic sound, though I wouldn't say it's a substantial upgrade from the 540C, I did a lot of testing earlier (playing the same songs through the CDP & DAC (lossless) at the same timeÿand switching inputs on the amp to hear the difference. I have disconnected the CDP now and will be on ebay very shortly, it don't know how but I think that player sounds incredible IMO, so this is not a diss on the DacMagic IMO.
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I suppose for once I believed the hype.ÿ
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EDIT: This is the cable I'm using
ÿhttp://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=CAMB-PACIFIC
P.S. It never makes a link when I tell it to, I don't get it! ÿÿ