[shuurajou]

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Originally Posted by Scrith In my experience, you're going to need to spend quite a bit of money to get a significant improvement over the DAC built into the 1212M. After using the 1212M for a few months I upgraded to a Benchmark DAC1, which did indeed sound better, but it was hardly an earth-shattering improvement. I think your money is better spent on items like amps and headphones (and speakers!).

What sort of price is the Benchmark Scrith? Is this an oversampling amp??? Thanks.

 

[raylpc]

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Originally Posted by MikeW 270 is to much, they normally go for 180-210$. An alternative is the DAC-AH which can be found at "DIY Club" for 135$ +40$ shipping (ships from china)

Why not buy it from Poth Audio based in US?
http://www.pothaudio.com/prod.php?view=20

Also there's a review at http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazin...1205/dacah.htm

I'm interested in this DAC, but not sure about the shipping to Canada.

 

[MikeW]

dosent matter much which source you get it from, im pretty sure poth just orders them from Diy club and resales them in the us. The DIY club + shipping price comes out to about the same as the price from poth.

 

[Scrith]

The Benchmark DAC1 (an external DAC with a variety of inputs and outputs that makes it very flexible for use with a computer with headphone and/or speaker amps, or as a headphone amp itself) is a great option if you're willing to spend around 700 (used) to 975 (new). With a DAC1 it won't matter what kind of sound card you have (as long as it supports a true 44K digital output, so I guess that rules out Soundblaster/Audigy/X-Fi).

 

[maarek99]

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Originally Posted by Scrith (as long as it supports a true 44K digital output, so I guess that rules out Soundblaster/Audigy/X-Fi).

X-fi supports bitperfect out.

 

[green84061]

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Originally Posted by maarek99 X-fi supports bitperfect out.

And I was under the impression that the audigy 2 does too, then again I may be wrong