joemg
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I see a lot of good things written about the NS-08E. I was poking around ebay and found something similar with a USB DAC built in:http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZHILAI-D1-HIFI-Headphone-Amplifier-USB-Audio-Chip-7022-16bit-24bit-Black-/172367159194?hash=item2821e21f9a:g:XY0AAOSwMVdYFwFs
It uses the 7022 chip for USB. Are these amps comparable? Is this a decent budget dac? I've narrowed my choices down to the NS-08E+hifimeDIY ES9023 DAC or this ebay one. The advantages of the ebay unit: 1) dac and amp combined is sleek 2) half the price of separate DAC/AMP.
Does anyone have any experiences, or even thoughts on this?
I'll be using them to power a Sennheiser HD595.
Also, I'm open to suggestion on tubes to roll since the chinese ones it comes with are probably garbage.
Thanks!
It uses the 7022 chip for USB. Are these amps comparable? Is this a decent budget dac? I've narrowed my choices down to the NS-08E+hifimeDIY ES9023 DAC or this ebay one. The advantages of the ebay unit: 1) dac and amp combined is sleek 2) half the price of separate DAC/AMP.
Does anyone have any experiences, or even thoughts on this?
I'll be using them to power a Sennheiser HD595.
Also, I'm open to suggestion on tubes to roll since the chinese ones it comes with are probably garbage.
Thanks!