I was going to go with the DAC MAGIC but im sure there are other options out there.
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7/10/11 at 8:03am
bresford gator...........
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7/10/11 at 8:07am
Go to schiit.com and check out Bifrost. It's not available till end of August, but if you can wait it represents great bang for the buck.
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Metrum Mini DAC Quad 290e ex shipping, aprox $385. Seems to get some very good reviews
http://www.nosminidac.nl/NOS_mini_DAC_English.html
Considering the bigger brother "octave" with psu myself.
A few lines down on the forum;
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/512389/mini-dac-tda1543-x-4-nos 60bucks with, it seems, the same dac chips as the Metrum dacs.
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