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post #1 of 5
3/7/11 at 2:47pm
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Hello Dear Headfiers, 

 

Planning to buy myself a new headphone amp+dac soon...

I wonder if you could help me on the choices of Amp+Dac (together or in separate packages).

Budget is about $400

 

At them moment my home setup is

AlienDAC + Starving Student 

 

Headphones in use would be mostly K701, DT150 and D2000 (in that order)


Music Genre is mostly Rock (Classic and Alternative)

 

as for Solid State / Tube

The most experience I have are the MHSS and a Pimeta (24v and stock opamps)

 

Ones I've been putting my eyes on are the

hiFace

Meier Swing

Audio-gd FUN

Matrix M-Stage

Darkvoice 336´

 

 

Any help is welcome...

 

Thanks!

 

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post #2 of 5
3/7/11 at 7:42pm

I don't think you can go wrong with any of the Audio-gd AMP/DAC units.  They all have good value for what they cost.

 

Based on reviews of the Matrix M-Stage and the Darkvoice found on Head-Fi, seems as though you can't really go wrong with either of those either.

 

If you're willing to jump to ~$500, there's a damn good review of the Yulong D100 DAC/AMP by Project86:

http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/499562/review-yulong-d100-dac-amp-reference-quality-with-a-reasonable-price

 

 

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post #3 of 5
3/7/11 at 8:01pm
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Hello Sridhar3,

thanks for the input...

 

just went through the reviews for this product in the website, and seems that a fellow headfier reported his unit going dead after some months of use... quite frightening for a 500 dollars unit....

Any clues if this is just one case or something similar do the Dac Zeros who kept dying out of nowhere?

 

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post #4 of 5
3/10/11 at 9:03am

I haven't heard any other reports of a similar thing happening.  Probably bad luck.  Audio-gd amps/DACs are well-regarded on this forum, but there are even reports of those failing from time to time.

 

I wouldn't be as concerned about a single account of an amp/DAC failing.  I'd be more concerned if either A) lots of similar reports existed, or B) customer service was reported to be lacking, in terms of troubleshooting/exchanges/returns etc.

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post #5 of 5
3/12/11 at 1:47am

There is an Audio-GD compass for sale for 200 in the fs forum right now!

 

Great combo!

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