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USB DAC With Balanced Output

post #1 of 6
1/16/11 at 4:12am
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I am looking in the near future to buy a USB DAC with balanced outputs. I will be using it with my KRK RP6's. 

 

I am looking to buy a used/second hand one as I can't afford to spend a lot on one, but if a good deal comes up I will go for it. So can anyone give me any makes and models of dac's that will fit my criteria, and I will check for them popping up on ebay, etc.

 

So far I have been looking at the Cambridge Audio DacMagic and just missed one selling for £150 on ebay, but nevermind.

 

So yeah any suggestions would be great thanks!

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post #2 of 6
1/16/11 at 4:14am

I really enjoy my DacMagic, you could do worse.

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post #3 of 6
1/16/11 at 4:17am
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Originally Posted by aangen View Post

I really enjoy my DacMagic, you could do worse.

 

Annoyed I just missed it on ebay. I can get a silver one brand new from Richer Sounds for £200, but I really wanted a black one, and at £150 was a great deal. Oh well, will keep checking. Any other decent make/model you could recommend?

 

At the moment I am really enjoying the KRK's, and that is just from a shitty dell laptop, with onboard realtek, with 128kbps mp3s, via RCA. So really looking forward to seeing what it's gonna be like through a DAC, with lossless audio, via balanced XLR. Do you think I will notice a big difference? ;)

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post #4 of 6
1/16/11 at 9:23am

You could also take a look at little dot DAC_I.

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post #5 of 6
1/16/11 at 8:35pm

I gotta tell ya I wouldn't care if my Dacmagic was pink, I'd still love it. But that is easy to say as it is Black.  ;) (and I waited 5 weeks for it AND paid list price....)

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post #6 of 6
1/16/11 at 8:50pm

Are you willing to consider portable balanced DACs ? I ask this because I had *assumed* that everyone was aware of iBasso's DB1/DB2 offerings - not sure how applicable this is for your needs though.

 

http://www.ibasso.com/en/products/show.asp?ID=61

 

I dont know when the DB2 will appear on the website. Apologies if this isnt what you are looking for.

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