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post #16 of 23
3/19/09 at 4:27am
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i was after something full sized i usually dont take stuff with me around and just use a pair of KSC75s when i travel so yeah i dont need it to be portable. how does the pico compare to other dacs in upper ranges?
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post #17 of 23
3/19/09 at 7:27am
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Originally Posted by zantetsuken View Post
i was after something full sized i usually dont take stuff with me around and just use a pair of KSC75s when i travel so yeah i dont need it to be portable. how does the pico compare to other dacs in upper ranges?
FWIR quite well, The Monkey has commented that it shares much of the same characteristics as his ECD-1.
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post #18 of 23
3/19/09 at 9:56am
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so the pico is much better than the dacmagic (which has balanced outputs too)?

but i definately look up to the ECD1 i hear thats a really magical dac. perhaps someday i shall afford that.
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post #19 of 23
3/21/09 at 5:24am
Para - your Opus DAC price is not accurate.
More like $230 - 650 if you build it yourself.
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post #20 of 23
3/21/09 at 6:03am
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Para - your Opus DAC price is not accurate.
More like $230 - 650 if you build it yourself.
true, I deleted it. I Took All dacs and prices from the "all DACs money can buy tread"
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post #21 of 23
3/26/09 at 12:50pm
This may be several days late, but what I'm using is a budget option: an M-Audio Fast Track Pro, a MIDI recording interface for musicians that has a USB input and both balanced and unbalanced outputs. You can also use it to make podcasts. They run about $200, but I found an unused on eBay for half that.
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post #22 of 23
7/5/10 at 12:36am

The Devilsound DAC cable is very nice for a simple headphone listening solution between computer and amp, happens to be $399.

 

Here's a whole 'nother bunch of selections for added confusion:

 

http://buy.audiogon.com/cgia/fsb.pl?dgtlconv


Edited by grokit - 7/5/10 at 12:38am
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post #23 of 23
7/8/10 at 9:15pm

DacMagic really is a great dac.  I heard noticeable differences over a uDac & a D10.  A Lavry DA11 only subtly improved details and soundstage over the DacMagic, for a mere 4x the price..  Personally I like oversampling dacs (2x will do), so that the reconstruction filter won't blur out the upper half frequencies when converting the signal back to analogue.

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