[chiuming07]

I am confused on how to connect DAC (Digial-Analog-converter) to headphone amp.

i read ppl in the forum said Chaintech AV-710 has an excellent DAC output. where is that DAC plug on the AV-710? (optical out??)

What kind of cable i use to connect AV-710 DAC and external headphone amp?

thanks

 

[parrot5]

The word to look for is the model number. A DAC is just a Digital to Analogue Converter. It can be a chip inside a soundcard or it can be a standalone one. In the case of the AV-710, its DAC is internal (all computer soundcards have an internal DAC inside it). An example of a standalone DAC would be a Micro DAC that headphone.com sells.

In the case of the AV-710, the lineout of the soundcard is a mini-jack. The cable to use will depend on your headphone amp. Some amps take a mini-in, and some others take RCAs.

 

[chiuming07]

by RCAs you mean those A/V cable in red / white color?

do u have a picture of it

thanks again

 

[chiuming07]

so for AV-710 what kind of cable i need to use? and I have to use the "line out" jack right? the one everybody saying has high quality sound??

thanks

 

[parrot5]

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Originally Posted by chiuming07 by RCAs you mean those A/V cable in red / white color? do u have a picture of it thanks again

like these:

The bigger ones are the RCA, and then the other one is the mini.

Quote:

so for AV-710 what kind of cable i need to use? and I have to use the "line out" jack right? the one everybody saying has high quality sound??

Use the black line-out jack of the AV-710. This is the one that everyone here says it's of higher quality than the other line-outs (due to a higher-quality DAC). The line-out is a mini-jack, so then now it depends on your headphone amp to see if you need a mini-mini cable, or a mini-RCA cable.

 

[parrot5]

double post

 

[chiuming07]

i get some suggestion of expensive amps like

1) Meier HA1 MKII ($299)
2) Gilmore Lite ($299)
3) Creek OBH-21 ($250)

but on ebay there is alot of amp called Custom cmoy sold for around $50

http://cgi.ebay.com/Micro-Cmoy-headp...QQcmdZViewItem

what are the quality different between the expensive ones and cheap cmoy ones?

thanks

 

[uzziah]

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Originally Posted by parrot5 like these: The bigger ones are the RCA, and then the other one is the mini. Use the black line-out jack of the AV-710. This is the one that everyone here says it's of higher quality than the other line-outs (due to a higher-quality DAC). The line-out is a mini-jack, so then now it depends on your headphone amp to see if you need a mini-mini cable, or a mini-RCA cable.

uhhhhhhhhhh, i'm not sure exactly what he's trying to tell you. if you intend to use the digital-out (optical) of the av710 (bypassing the internal Digital-to-Analog-Converter, DAC) you need a toslink cable. if your external dac has a standard toslink connector, then you need toslink-toslink cable, like this:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...t=1#largeimage

if you external dac has a mini-toslink input (such as microdac), you need a toslink-miniToslink connector:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...t=1#largeimage

if you're using the internal dac of the chaintech to output a line-out (unamplified) signal to an amp, then you will use a standard analog mini-mini, or mini-rca interconnect; depending on what your amp uses as an input

http://images.tigerdirect.ca/itemDet...04-out3-hl.jpg
so....the output on the far right with the little black plug is the digital toslink

 

[parrot5]

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Originally Posted by uzziah uhhhhhhhhhh, i'm not sure exactly what he's trying to tell you. if you intend to use the digital-out (optical) of the av710 (bypassing the internal Digital-to-Analog-Converter, DAC) you need a toslink cable. if your external dac has a standard toslink connector, then you need toslink-toslink cable, like this: http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...t=1#largeimage if you external dac has a mini-toslink input (such as microdac), you need a toslink-miniToslink connector: http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...t=1#largeimage if you're using the internal dac of the chaintech to output a line-out (unamplified) signal to an amp, then you will use a standard analog mini-mini, or mini-rca interconnect; depending on what your amp uses as an input http://images.tigerdirect.ca/itemDet...04-out3-hl.jpg so....the output on the far right with the little black plug is the digital toslink

I told him some amps take RCA-in, so that he would need the cable pictured, if he's using the high quality line-out of AV-710. Clearer?