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Need Help Choosing DAC For Macbook Pro (£220 or less)

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Hi, last night i finaly took the plunge and bought a Fubar 4 plus direct from the companys EU dept. it was an impulse buy as it was reduced to £160 inc postage when they normaly sell at around £320, so i thought atleast...    Ive now contacted them and canceled my order (brilliant customer service finaly enough) 

 

the reasons for me canceling my purchace were:

 

Buying what seamed outdated tech in a rapidly progressing market seamed like a waste of time

 

I would of been putting money into a headphone amp that i wouldnt be using so that money was being wasted

 

after doing a small amount of research i found there to be so much competition i didnt know enough to make an informed decision...

 

I found Schiit's Bifrost which looked pretty promising (but is pushing my budget as far as it could possiably go and then a little more, the things we do eh?

 

the top end of my budget is about £200 i can get more but nothing more substantial than postage on top realy :)

 

Im planing on using the Mini toslink to toslink to conect the dac to my amp (pioneer precision a300r)  speakers http://www.xtz.se/uk/products/speakers/93-wmt_2 and active sub http://www.bkelec.com/hifi/Sub_Woofers/XLS200-DF.htm (not mkii) - i currently run a 4m 3.5mm jack to phono from my laptop to the amp, will a cheep toslink be ok to replace this?

 

TO SUMMERISE - WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND FOR A DAC UNDER £200 - AND DID I MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION CANCELING MY ORDER?

 

Many thankyou's in advance!

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Please can an admin move this to the right place, just realised it should be in dedicated source components?

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hi, have u considered the centrance dacport lx? its a really great dac, slightly better than the one in the entrance dacport, which is already excellent. u can try to find it second hand, should be able to find one within ur budget!

 

hope this helps!

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Ordered the schiit Bifrost in the end, what type of cable is best? No more than £50 & 5m

thanks again :)

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