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How good is this dac if we use it solely as a DAC ? Or shall I ask how bad it is compared to HRT Streamer ?
I haven't heard the HRT Streamer. Using a Macbook Pro and iTunes with USB out and 24/96 hi-res downloads, when I connected the uDAC-2 RCA output to drive my ALO Amphora and HiFiMan EF2 I couldn't really distinguish a difference between the uDAC-2 line-out and the Pico DAC-only line-out. It was also pretty close with 16/44.1 recordings (lossless). With poor quality recordings the Pico DAC-only did a little better job, and I'm not sure how they would compare using much higher quality amps; but these are the kind of amps most likely to be paired with a budget DAC. The uDAC-1 RCA output was not this good, but it was still better than a PCM2706 DAC.