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Emotiva Stealth DC-1

Anyone have experience - good or bad - with an Emotiva Setalth DC-1 DAC?

http://emotiva.com/products/dacs/electronics/dacs/stealth-dc-1

Also, if someone can/would recommend an alternative - without costing 10 times as much - that too would be appreciated.

Thanks!
gdhal
bobaudet
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I have several pieces of Emotive this stuff is just as good as good as equipment that cost 5 times as much. Unlike most high end
end companies the're not looking for a few suckers to buy over priced equipment.
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gdhal OP
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Yeah I like the value they offer. I have an ERC-3 CD player and I'm very happy with it. It's for that reason I'm considering more Emotiva equipment. Thanks bobaudet.  
auxinput
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The Emotiva DC-1 is almost exactly like the Emotiva XDA-2 dac, except the DC-1 is a fully differential/balanced circuit from DAC chip to output.  It also uses LM4562 as output buffers instead of OPA2134 (as is used in XDA-2).  The sound is going to be almost the same.  Both have same power supply and both use active I/V circuits for an AD1955 DAC chip.

If I was looking in similar price range, I would consider the Teac UD-501.  Isolated power supply sections for each channel and does not use active I/V (which does require some power supply current).  Teac is also fully differential/balanced circuits and does support DSD (if you're interested).

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gdhal OP
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thx auxinput. I did a cursory review of the Teac you mentioned. Seems it has been discontinued in favor of the UD503. The MSRP on that is basically twice that of the Emotiva. Not the best review on that either from what hi fi, but admittedly I'm not a big what hif fan.

http://www.whathifi.com/teac/ud-503/review


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