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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #130 on: April 10, 2013, 04:15:30 AM »
I like the Burson Conductor was a good amp with an okay DAC built in.  I imagine it gets better if you use a decent USB -> SPDIF converter to bypass its somewhat buggy Tenor chip, but I haven't tried doing so yet. 

Iuno if I'd recommend buying it blindly though as it does have a bit of a sound signature to it that you may or may not like. 
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #131 on: April 10, 2013, 05:36:49 AM »
Quote from: seacard on April 10, 2013, 03:59:56 AM
I had the Antelope Audio Zodiac Gold, and thought it was meh. Seems like there are some good DACs with mediocre headphone amps built in, so is there a product that does both acceptably well? Invicta? Eximus DP1? Anedio?

Yeah I'm not a fan of the Antelope. The Anedio is a solid choice, there's also the Grace m903, though I have no experience with that so please correct me if it's crap. BMC's PureDAC has a 4-pin balanced HP output as well as a regular jack which I think is a first for an integrated DAC/HPA? The Exasound e20 has a HPA, but I'm not sure I could pay $2500 for a DAC that uses a cheap power brick. It also seems to be a fairly typical "Sabre sound" DAC. There's also the T+A DAC8.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #132 on: April 10, 2013, 07:49:04 AM »
Both Lavry DA11 and the new Grace m903 include decent amps, crossfeed. The DA11 has a better implementation of both features so it can handle precise adjustments to imaging and volume, where it has plenty of headroom.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #133 on: April 10, 2013, 08:42:08 AM »
^I would love to be able to trade my DAC1 for a Lavry DA11.  (But I know that nobody would do it.)
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #134 on: April 10, 2013, 08:52:25 AM »
On the tube side there was this thread: http://www.changstar.com/index.php/topic,699.0.html
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #135 on: April 10, 2013, 11:02:50 AM »
Quote from: Synnöve on April 10, 2013, 03:48:16 AM
Why not consider changing your source or DAC so as to not require conversion? Would surely be more cost effective I'd guess.
Because i still love my current DAC.  :)p2
Quote from: DaveBSC on April 10, 2013, 03:32:52 AM
Not many of the higher-end converters have optical outputs, but some do - the M2Tech EVO and SoTM dX-USB USD being the major ones. Optical is usually left out because it's considered inferior to coax, and its support for 24/192 is dubious. Between those two I would recommend the SoTM.
Yes, even new M2Tech EVO doesn't have optical Output anymore.
SoTM looks promising.
Thanks for the information.  :)p5
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #136 on: April 10, 2013, 03:24:57 PM »
Quote from: CEE TEE on April 10, 2013, 08:42:08 AM
^I would love to be able to trade my DAC1 for a Lavry DA11.  (But I know that nobody would do it.)

I've got an extra one I could lend you for a while if you want to try it out.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #137 on: April 10, 2013, 09:33:09 PM »
you keep a spare DA11 lying around?  :-00

On a similar note, how does the DA10 fare in comparison to the DA11?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #138 on: April 11, 2013, 02:38:32 PM »
Hello, I have a simple question. My friend needs cheap (<$100), closed headphones that isolate so he can use it when playing drums. He also wants it for gaming. I'm not very familiar with headphones (iem guy here) and the closest I've found is the superlux hd631. Are there better contenders?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #139 on: April 11, 2013, 02:58:36 PM »
Spring a little for the ATH-M50 (Or find used).  Good for drummers.   headbang

http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATH-M50-Professional-Monitor-Headphones/dp/B000ULAP4U
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