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Upgrading my more than 10 year old DAC (Proceed)
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<blockquote data-quote="croak" data-source="post: 356403" data-attributes="member: 361"><p>Imo in some ways yes, in some ways not. </p><p>Legacy DACs will not do the new high Rez that is available. Well executed legacy DACs can be very good on red book cd.</p><p>Other important things like power supplies done proper still cost money today. That said it would seem there are some very affordable chips that perform well so the performance available at entry level has improved imo and modern input receiver chips seem to worry a bit less about what feeds them. (Looking at net present value of money) compare many DACs today around R5k or less vs entry level DACs 10-15 years ago costing say R3k which was actually way more cash.</p><p>For computer driven audio the performance available around 3k from things like Audioquest dragonfly are quite something. There are others but the AQ was one of the first.</p><p></p><p>At the moment I am very taken with Metrum Acoustics Octave I bought to get a taste of something different. Some folks I know with high end legacy dacs have gone in this direction. They are very different. Both new and old reviewers seem to like them too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="croak, post: 356403, member: 361"] Imo in some ways yes, in some ways not. Legacy DACs will not do the new high Rez that is available. Well executed legacy DACs can be very good on red book cd. Other important things like power supplies done proper still cost money today. That said it would seem there are some very affordable chips that perform well so the performance available at entry level has improved imo and modern input receiver chips seem to worry a bit less about what feeds them. (Looking at net present value of money) compare many DACs today around R5k or less vs entry level DACs 10-15 years ago costing say R3k which was actually way more cash. For computer driven audio the performance available around 3k from things like Audioquest dragonfly are quite something. There are others but the AQ was one of the first. At the moment I am very taken with Metrum Acoustics Octave I bought to get a taste of something different. Some folks I know with high end legacy dacs have gone in this direction. They are very different. Both new and old reviewers seem to like them too. [/QUOTE]
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