Help with DAC

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Would the sound quality improve if I pair an Audioquest Dragonfly v1.2 with Marantz PM6005. I know it may seem like a fairly obvious question to some, but i am not aware of when there are multiple DACs in play.

Thank you

 

[Ketan Bharadia]

The Dragonfly is a USB device while the module used in the PM6005 can only deal with coax and optical. In absolute terms, I suspect the Audioquest is better sounding, but using it's headphone output to drive a line-level input (plus the use of a suitable 3.5mm to RCA cable) will muddy things a bit. I'd be tempted to wait until there was budget for a big step up to the likes of Arcam's iR DAC or the Chord Mojo.

 

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The Dragonfly is a USB device while the module used in the PM6005 can only deal with coax and optical. In absolute terms, I suspect the Audioquest is better sounding, but using it's headphone output to drive a line-level input (plus the use of a suitable 3.5mm to RCA cable) will muddy things a bit. I'd be tempted to wait until there was budget for a big step up to the likes of Arcam's iR DAC or the Chord Mojo.

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[ID.]

+1

Also, you wouldn't have multiple DACs in play. You can only use either one or the other. So an off board DAC would take the digital signal, convert it to analog and then send the analog signal to your amp via RCA cables, completely skipping the DAC chip in the amp.

 

[Blacksabbath25]

The Dragonfly is a USB device while the module used in the PM6005 can only deal with coax and optical. In absolute terms, I suspect the Audioquest is better sounding, but using it's headphone output to drive a line-level input (plus the use of a suitable 3.5mm to RCA cable) will muddy things a bit. I'd be tempted to wait until there was budget for a big step up to the likes of Arcam's iR DAC or the Chord Mojo.

the arcam irdac will inprove the sound of the PM6005 but you will need a marantz cd player to use the irdac to input the coax or optical inputs but this irdac will blow your budget