F1NGGY
New Head-Fier
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Hi, been browsing this forum for a couple of days now and this realy is a new world!
Without futher do i would like to state my current gear
FLAC and 320 kbps MP3's (Electronic dance music only, mostly hardstyle and house)
Foobar 2000
Aus Xonar D2X (http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=ZBWhAEnH6nDOB00E&templete=2)
Some great Headphones (not yet purchased)
Im realy not aware of the quality of my D2X DAC (TI Burr-Brown PCM1796 *4 (123dB SNR, Max. 192kHz/24bit)) mainly because i dont have any proper gear to test it with.
Therefore my first idea was to just swap the D2X for a Xonar ST wich would have built in headphone amp and a better DAC (Texas Instruments PCM1792A*1 for Front-Out (127dB SNR, Max. 192kHz/24bit)) and just roll with that, but as i browsed the forum i found out that perhaps the built in amp wasnt very good and to keep my D2X and go digital to an external DAC with or without Headphone amp would be a better deal.
Perhaps the external DAC would be a good idea(?)
@ the moment i got a Z-5500 (http://www.logitech.com/sv-se/speakers_audio/home_pc_speakers/devices/224) hooked up via analog mini tele with the D2X for movie watching and such
is it possible to connect a external DAC aswell? would it be a good idea?
What 150-300´$ DAC is recommended ( perhaps with a built in headphone amp) ?
anything to keep in mind?
Is there a better alternative considering what i already own =)
Feel free to comment, rederict etc =)
/F1NGGY
Without futher do i would like to state my current gear
FLAC and 320 kbps MP3's (Electronic dance music only, mostly hardstyle and house)
Foobar 2000
Aus Xonar D2X (http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=ZBWhAEnH6nDOB00E&templete=2)
Some great Headphones (not yet purchased)
Im realy not aware of the quality of my D2X DAC (TI Burr-Brown PCM1796 *4 (123dB SNR, Max. 192kHz/24bit)) mainly because i dont have any proper gear to test it with.
Therefore my first idea was to just swap the D2X for a Xonar ST wich would have built in headphone amp and a better DAC (Texas Instruments PCM1792A*1 for Front-Out (127dB SNR, Max. 192kHz/24bit)) and just roll with that, but as i browsed the forum i found out that perhaps the built in amp wasnt very good and to keep my D2X and go digital to an external DAC with or without Headphone amp would be a better deal.
Perhaps the external DAC would be a good idea(?)
@ the moment i got a Z-5500 (http://www.logitech.com/sv-se/speakers_audio/home_pc_speakers/devices/224) hooked up via analog mini tele with the D2X for movie watching and such
is it possible to connect a external DAC aswell? would it be a good idea?
What 150-300´$ DAC is recommended ( perhaps with a built in headphone amp) ?
anything to keep in mind?
Is there a better alternative considering what i already own =)
Feel free to comment, rederict etc =)
/F1NGGY
