Praise for DacMagic


Just wanted to give some very positive feedback for the Cambridge Audio DacMagic DAC. It doesn't seem to get much attention around these forums, but I am enjoying it immensely. In my opion, terrific value for the money.

During the past few weeks, I have used it with great success both within a PC music server and 2-channel environments.

Who knows, I may end up switching it out for a better DAC in the future, but for now I am quite pleased.

As a side note, I was not impressed with it at first when used to enhance an NAD C541 CDP. On a whim, I switched out the NAD for a modest Sony DVD player that is around 5-7 years old. Then, everything came into place and the music was rich and detailed. The Sony DVD/DacMagic combination blew the doors off the NAD/DacMagic combination. Go figure...
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I'm really enjoying the DacMagic especially now with the Pangea P100 power supply. I can't solder to save my life so the $100 for the P100 Power Supply from Audioadvisor was worth it to me.
I bought another P100 for my 640P phono preamp...I love those damned things. Seems to make the 640P warmer and more accurate...or something...and having 2 P100s next to each other in the back of my rack looks like the headlights in some space vehicle that landed there. A nice, somewhat mysterious vibe. Combined with the red filter I stuck on my Littlite, there is now a more serious red/blue theme happening...holiday appropriate!
CA have just released the Dacmagic Plus

- 24bit/384kHz upsampling
- Audio File Play via Bluetooth
- Volume Control
- Headphone jack
They are available in Canada - and I'm tempted, but I'll wait for the 768kHz up-sampling version.

It will probably take them around 3 years to bring out the next gen with some really significant improvement

Or perhaps they will update the streaming technology on their DVD players so I can have a single unit to also replace my Dacmagic, Apple TV and CD player

Their BR players have some of this but lack the Internet streaming at present that the apple TV provides.