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I'm looking to buy a DAC which can display the input bitrate. SQ is not important -- price is the main concern. A USB soundcard is possible. It has to support 24/176.4 and 24/192 and have coaxial spdif inputs (but toslink is not necessarily a deal breaker).
 
Any suggestions?

 

[imyself]

Audiotrak DR.DAC2 DX, Javs UDT-1 (NO DAC!), and Matrix Mini-i are between 300 and 350 USD and display (some) sample rates. I am not sure about accuracy - what do you mean by that? Also, I went for sample rate rather than bit rate. I also didn't check for coax s/pdif.
 
HTH

 

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Audiotrak DR.DAC2 DX, Javs UDT-1 (NO DAC!), and Matrix Mini-i are between 300 and 350 USD and display (some) sample rates. I am not sure about accuracy - what do you mean by that? Also, I went for sample rate rather than bit rate. I also didn't check for coax s/pdif.
 
HTH

 
You are right, I meant sample rate instead of bitrate. I can get an EMU 0404 USB for 200USD so this might be the cheapest I guess.

 

[imyself]

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I can get an EMU 0404 USB for 200USD so this might be the cheapest I guess.

Sorry, but at least on a cursory look the EMU 0404 USB doesn't seem to have indicators on the device itself? Am I getting that wrong or are you also happy with a software-based solution rather than direct indicators on the device?