DAC's.....Do I really need one ?

[jammy395]

Ok Ive shunned this dac bollox long enough....
But it seem's to be the (new) must have.
Why ?........ just what the fuk wouuld it bring to the party a good cd player cant !!!
Should I get one / does my rack really need another box.....
I give in Help.

[kimangelis]

You've read my thread? Certainly made a difference to the Rega Apollo-R, and as I said, in a very NVA way.... more of the same.

[Fretless]

Wouldn't want to be without my MF M1DAC, it transforms a good CD player into something great; also it really digs out the detail and dynamics from a Sonos and hi-res audio via USB.

You'll just have to try one and see.

[_D_S_J_R_]

If the bloody CD player manufacturers did it right in the first place and without the 'upgrade ladder,' we wouldn't have to add yet another box to the setup.

I maintain that modern cheap DAC chips do it all internally, just needing a decent clean supply to work as well as anything else (the infamous Philips 1541 chip's 'working part' was a little square with width the same as ONE of the pins, the rest just empty space taken up by the pins).

Good as the Rega Apollo R is, it could quite easily be as 'good' as the DAC methinks. The DAC 'goes wrong' in all the beat ways, the music always coming first in a communicative way.

I'm so far out from modern CD players now, so would be in a right mess if my old Micro Seiki finally went tits-up. I've had great results from certain cheap Denon machines and have a long standing suspicion about ANYTHING Marantz I'm afraid (I don't share good vibes on 'KI' whatever he thinks he is), as a lot of their 'stuff' seems to have been artificially 'doctored.'

[jammy395]

Dac chips......like fish n chips.....cause as far as I can tell the wee chinks / Japs havve the monopoly on crap tat......infact aint there only a couple original dac circuits........

[brit-pop]

Ok Ive shunned this dac bollox long enough....
But it seem's to be the (new) must have.
Why ?........ just what the fuk wouuld it bring to the party a good cd player cant !!!
Should I get one / does my rack really need another box.....
I give in Help.

Nothing I'd say it your happy with the sound of your CD player and have no need of other sources.

If however you wanted to add a basic streamer, or a computer to your set up, or if you just want to get better audio from your tv then you'd benefit from one.

I have the Rega DAC and it makes computer audio almost decent. I run my squeezebox, Marantz CDP and TV into. Mind you, I also have a cheap sabre USB DAC which is one of the most natural sounding components I've ever heard for beer money.

[jammy395]

If however you wanted to add a basic streamer, or a computer to your set up, or if you just want to get better audio from your tv then you'd benefit from one. (Britpop)

What is a streamer.?

[Apprentice]

No, probably not.

But have a listen, you still won't need one, but you might want one.

[jammy395]

But if I pop over to TAS I feel like a fukin leper cause totp's is a caiman .....I thought it was an island.
Bla fukin Bla Beresford .........wtf.

[wallace]

..I thought it was an island.

It's where he has his bank account..