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Recommend upgrade DAC

Currently using Cambridge DAC Magic with SB Duet. Have no real complaints and could happily live with it. But, what would be a nice step up in a DAC for around $800-1000 used? Possibly with HDCD decoding?

Also, all CD's ripped to FLAC. Will ripped HDCD's be recognized by SB Duet and pass them on to DAC?
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lapierre
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Wavelength Proton (uses USB to power the necessities)
Benchmark DAC1 (no USB for this model but they have DAC1 w/ USB with additional cost)
lapierre
547 posts
 
You have options with Benchmark DAC1 for inputs.
lapierre
547 posts
 
Tough to beat the Cambridge DAC Magic on price to performance but I like the pedigree of Benchmark DAC1. Less of the off the shelf market components and a lot of in-house development of components and software.

You want to see some type of innovation like the UltraLock™ jitter-immune clock-isolation technology versus using general parts.
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