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I love the Mytek Brooklyn as a DAC.
I love the Codex as a headphone amp.
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A used Aqua la Voce S3 would be a fantastic option. They don't come up used often though.
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DAC’s aren’t at all like Speakers, or even Power Amps when it comes to adding flavor to sound systems. 20 years ago, when I was young and impressionable I might have agreed with you, but when the goal is converting 0’s and 1’s to an analog waveform, measured performance really should be king, imo. If you want to add a sonic signature that you find pleasing to your system I feel like the equipment to do that with are primarily speakers, followed by amps.
Sources, which DAC’s are, now that the majority of people are using computer based front end’s, should be as clean as possible, and SINAD is one of the best ways to measure that. This is exactly as I see it now after about 20 years. A super clean DAC and preamp make even middling amplification and my KEF LS50’s sing better than ever. I actually used the SINAD as a guide to my front end choices. |
If you can go a little more say 40 thousand the top of line Aqua dac and CD player . Use yor credit Card then claim chapter 13 your in !! Hire a good lawyer would help .
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