flyingicarus
New Head-Fier
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I have a pair of excellent standmount speakers, a nice Nakamichi receiver and using an Acer laptop as a music server (mediamonkey as the software). I tried the original Audioquest Dragonfly, a Micromega MyDAC and lastly an NAD D 1050 dac. I could not detect any significant difference sonic-wise between any of these dacs and the output from the headphone jack. The Acer laptop uses a Realtek chip which theoretically should be worse sounding than any of the dacs I tried using speakers and not headphones but there was no difference which truly surprised me (no hiss or warbles or jitter issues seem to arise). I suppose it could be that the headphone output using the internal dac is adequate and up to par compared to these dacs i tried. Is it worth trying another dac to really get a sound improvement?