proneax
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There is some chatter comparing these two but it is scattered on here.
I've done a LOT of supplemental reading and have narrowed these two dac/amps as the best < $150.
USB is necessary, although I do have a TOSlink out....
** not looking to get a separate headphone amp, so the integrated one is important here.
I like the Aune due to the ability to roll opamps and the plug-and-play in linux, windows, mac.
I like the Musiland due to the ostensibly lower jitter on USB, and DTS/etc on SPDIF out.
they both use the same DAC chip which sets them both up to get great reviews in general.
***QUESTIONS:
1.) is the jitter on the Aune really that bad? Anyone compared the Aune to an async setup?
2.) What about the headamp on the musiland 02? I'll be driving sony 7506 / 63ohms.
I've heard that the opamp in the musiland is poor, but I'm not running high impedance phones. I can't tell if people are calling it poor in general or just poor compared to more expensive amps...
3.) There is apparently a 3 second delay when switching sample rate using the musiland's precision mode. Has anyone found this annoying? Given shared mode in windows, I assume this would only happen with ASIO and if you play 2 music files back to back that have different sample rates? That would almost never happen to me.
I've done a LOT of supplemental reading and have narrowed these two dac/amps as the best < $150.
USB is necessary, although I do have a TOSlink out....
** not looking to get a separate headphone amp, so the integrated one is important here.
I like the Aune due to the ability to roll opamps and the plug-and-play in linux, windows, mac.
I like the Musiland due to the ostensibly lower jitter on USB, and DTS/etc on SPDIF out.
they both use the same DAC chip which sets them both up to get great reviews in general.
***QUESTIONS:
1.) is the jitter on the Aune really that bad? Anyone compared the Aune to an async setup?
2.) What about the headamp on the musiland 02? I'll be driving sony 7506 / 63ohms.
I've heard that the opamp in the musiland is poor, but I'm not running high impedance phones. I can't tell if people are calling it poor in general or just poor compared to more expensive amps...
3.) There is apparently a 3 second delay when switching sample rate using the musiland's precision mode. Has anyone found this annoying? Given shared mode in windows, I assume this would only happen with ASIO and if you play 2 music files back to back that have different sample rates? That would almost never happen to me.
