Dan Masters Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) BTW, in the last post, when I said "distortion" I meant "noise" primarily. It's noise (random signal fluctuations) that causes two channels of identical source material to diverge in accuracy. Edited March 19 by Dan Masters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBick Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 I have compared using a Schitt Modi to going direct from a fairly new laptop, and I do hear an improvement with the Modi. But I was surprised that using a Wiim DAC, connected through wifi sounded just as good for me. This was a pleasant surprise so that now I can stream music to my La Scalas in the living room, Hereseys in my office or even the outdoor speakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 I recently bought a Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100, it was around $150 as an open box from Crutchfiled. I liked the fact it has 3 inputs plus USB. I put it in line with my old Rega Planet (original) CD player from 1997. The 100 uses a Wolfson 24-bit chipset from around 2011 that is probably a bit long in the tooth in DAC years but I think Rega, ironically, actually used this chip in its recent release of the Saturn III CD player. Quite honestly I couldn't tell much difference at first. Listened to about 12 different tracks of music and on a couple of them I actually thought Rega's original customized Burr-Brown DAC sounded better. After running it for a few weeks I can tell that there is some better vocal presence and clarity in the mid-range but that's about it. I plan to test it with a cheap Blu-Ray player to see if the difference is more pronounced. I may splurge a bit and try the Geshelli Labs J2 down the as it seems to be all the rave and very up-to-date DAC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 DEFINITELY long in the tooth... but hey, it still works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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