How does its DAC lineout connected to home hifi or studio monitors compare to entry fullsize DACs like Dacmagic100, Music Fidelity v90 or Arcam rDac ?
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It works just as well as most. There is a diminishing return in DA processors. Until one gets to very high priced units its difficult to tell any diference.
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Really depends on the sound device your computer has and what you hope to get out of an attached device. A decent sound card will give you as a good a DAC as the one in this device, so you could most likely "get away with" a less expensive headphone-amplifier only - there's really no reason to pay for the DAC component if you don't need it.
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I'm pretty sure it will be a pretty nice jump in SQ as I believe I was using mine w/ an IPod Classic to run Wav file through the HP-P1 DAC.The real advantage to using the HP-P1 is that you're no longer stuck using much lesser DACs built into non Audio company music playing devices & as a result you can use "real" IEMs or headphones w/ these devices to listen to real music files ,not that "MP3" rate garbage that people, who basically can't hear, listen to. If you listen to portable music this is an acceptable solution !
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I use mine strictly for my high resolution audio all onboard sound boards have to be disabled in order to get the full capability of a DAC when used with a 5.1 home theater it's nothing but a brick the HT head unit will mess with the bit stream and the DAC will do it's best but you're feeding it 50% of the dataA DACs place in my setup goes like thisLaptop usb out DAC high quality RCA plugs to AMP to speakersthe fewer steps between the source audio and the DAC the betterhope that helps
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It will not be as noiseless as a higher-end pre-amp or A/D interface, nor will it have as much gain as a dedicated pre-amp. It's a more fast-and-dirty solution than a home studio centerpiece. Chose instead a dedicated USB audio interface if you need studio quality, but if you're just doing youtube voiceovers, it'll sound fine.
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You may understand, I will point out there is no amplifier in the DAC. It's only a processor. That said, it makes an amazing difference in sound quality, such that I want to run all my music through it. I have been told that HDMI sound channels are superior. My ears prefer the sound from this device.
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A DAC is a nice complement to these for audio clarity. It will sound much better than just coming out of your computer with a analog signal. But they don't necessarily need a pra-amp or DAC if you are using a computer. The volume slider on the computer will control there volume level. The only necessity for a pre-amp or DAC is for switching multiple source devices and volume. So if you intend on only using one source and it has a way to control volume then a Pre-amp is not necessary. If this is not clear please feel fee to call us for further explanation. Thank you for your interest. By the way I think these speakers sound incredible!
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The DAC is fine. What will limit sound quality in this case is not the DAC but rather the upsampling that pandora is guilty of - at least when i sampled music streaming services. I compared spotify, pandora, and mog, and hands down - Mog was the winner in file quality - dont get bogged down with numbers and listen first. I cancelled both pandora and spotify immediately.
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Since you are using a line out dock connection from 5s to the dac it sends a digital signal to the dac that then converts to analog and amplifies for headphones or RCA out to a receiver. I have a hybrid tube solid state stereo amp and I love how easy and awesome the nuforce idac is.
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Probably not a DAC. Amplifier possibly. Their closed and not incredibly hard to drive, but tbh, the listening experience with even a modest amplifier will be substantially better. I currently use one of the small FiiO amps.
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I often use a DAC and headphone amp for lossless and lossy files. The One has as good a DAC, at least for recording, way better than a lot of "portable" DACs out there. For critical listening, depending on your tastes and budget, you may still prefer an audiophile grade DAC.
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While i have a nice set of bowers wilkins speakers, i am not as hifi and have no vinyl. This will do the job, I think, but there are probably $400 units by other manufacturers that would be better??? i dunno, but the other weak leak would be a not having a dedicated DAC. I only use this to record segments of DirecTV music channels for long flights. At home I now just do Rhapsody or Pandora for ease... super hifi doesnt matter when you are working out in the garage with power tools. Sorry I cant tell you more
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It's not necessary to have a DAC, I use a Schiit Modi. They released the second generation DAC and Amp that are great quality and very reasonably priced.
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I went thru the owners cd rom and it doesn't say any thing about DAC. I connect to an onkyo receiver thru the cd-in rca jacks, so the receiver probably does the conversion. I love it, it's still going strong, but for some reason philips discontinued it.
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Hello JT, I utilize the AudioEngine D1 DAC while testing these speakers and do not have a problem, they work great! Michael @ Kraft Street Audio
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I am using the Emotiva DC-1 DAC with XLR outs and USB in along with an Emotiva Control Freak volume control. Love the combination and my computer audio files (flac and mp3) have never sounded better. I am also using the Presonus Tremblor T10 subwoofer. Love it's on/off foot peddle.
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Any DAC will do fine. I have mine hooked up to my Fiio E07k. One could also plug it directly into the PC's headphone line out as well.