[WiR3D]

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Maybe not the best, but sub-par definitely not, and surely not worth spending 800 bucks imo. I'd rather spend that on a good set of speakers/headphones.

True on both counts, but back to the question, nope not possible to use it as a DAC for a laptop.

 

[proton007]

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The DAC/AMP bypasses the poor soundchip and 3,5 jack in the tablet (anyway thats the idea). The combination Toshiba Thrive & Beyer T70 isn't bad but could do better with my Fiio E19. It does so with my laptop. There is no crackeling sound or background hisses when I use the DAC/AMP with USB hosting enabled.

With your laptop, I agree. Laptops suffer from noise due to integrated nature of the sound cards.
With your tablet, not much of an audible difference.

 

[proton007]

 
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True on both counts, but back to the question, nope not possible to use it as a DAC for a laptop.

Thanks for the info.

 

[t0tor0]

hi guys
 
please see this video of the galaxy s3
 
6:49min into the video, it is connected into a Fiio ext DAC/AMP
 

 
 
 
hope this helps!

 

[WiR3D]

all i needed to see. quite sweet

 

[35se]

any updates on this?