budgophille
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I'm in the same boat as the OP, I am also in the market for a DAC. My budget may be a little higher, but not by much. I had considered this: http://www.kingrex.com/productimg.aspx?id=22
But I don't know that it's that much different from the Dragon doodad that was mentioned a couple of pages ago. I heard a Matrix Mini at the fest, and was fairly satisfied with that, but I did want something that would go up to 24/196 through USB, but I do have a 3.5 glass to Toslink coming out of my XPS laptop, and according to the sound settings, I can set my output to that.
I had a couple of questions as well, if you guys don't mind me jumping in here on this thread....
1. I have seen quite a few DAC's with BNC outputs, what's up with that? I'm guessing they might connect to some equipment I can't afford, or would it be more for a commercial application.
2. In looking at the nudies of most of the DAC's here, it just doesn't seem like there's that much to them, compared to say... the MDHT Havana or Paridisea. Is that because they are more in the non-upsampling tube category?
3. Is there are way to search for DAC's on AK? I've tried with "DAC", Dac, "USB+DAC" to no avail. I guess it's a four character min in the Boolean operators?
Thanks so much for any insight on my hodge-podge of questions. Jon
But I don't know that it's that much different from the Dragon doodad that was mentioned a couple of pages ago. I heard a Matrix Mini at the fest, and was fairly satisfied with that, but I did want something that would go up to 24/196 through USB, but I do have a 3.5 glass to Toslink coming out of my XPS laptop, and according to the sound settings, I can set my output to that.
I had a couple of questions as well, if you guys don't mind me jumping in here on this thread....
1. I have seen quite a few DAC's with BNC outputs, what's up with that? I'm guessing they might connect to some equipment I can't afford, or would it be more for a commercial application.
2. In looking at the nudies of most of the DAC's here, it just doesn't seem like there's that much to them, compared to say... the MDHT Havana or Paridisea. Is that because they are more in the non-upsampling tube category?
3. Is there are way to search for DAC's on AK? I've tried with "DAC", Dac, "USB+DAC" to no avail. I guess it's a four character min in the Boolean operators?
Thanks so much for any insight on my hodge-podge of questions. Jon