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How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC)

I am looking primarily at the Schitt Yggdrasil or the Topping D90.
  • How does one feed those?
  • I am assuming any sort of CD transport would output the bit stream?
  • or… they get saved to file and played from some media player into the DACs.

Some example of what is commonly done would be great.

The system currently consists of:
  • TT —> Audio Research PH2
  • An old Nakamichi 5 disk CD player
  • TV
  • Audible Illusions line stage (New tunes on the way, but it still sound OK to me with the old tube in it)
  • Prima Luna (with GoldenLion and TS KT-120 one the way… and I might I’ll get the VTL mono blocks 100w/ch serviced)
  • Vandy 2C and Vandy sub

I also have a Home Theatre pre, which is Roon capable, on the way… So that maybe does some of this for me as well? 

But to be totally honest, the digital side is a bit of mystery to me.
I have always thought we plug in a CD player and the signal comes out. (Maybe with some nuance in DACs, clock jitter, and filtering to separate the higher end from the lower end products.)
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holmz OP
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@missioncoonery do you mean me?
Boy you sure do talk alot of BS
Usually my BS is offered sarcastically, which many say, “is the lowest form of humour.”


I generally find the idea of cables somewhat snake oil laden, and multiple stereophile routers could be in that list. But proof they work would be nice to see.

I need to find my CD s transport for the NUC later today as it is supposed to rain. Before that rain starts, I should do my outside work.
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cuongsg
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Mình mới đọc topic này https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/how-to-get-into-high-end-digital-feeding-a-dac?utm_source=sen...
thấy có ý kiến dùng audio swich làm tăng chất lương nhạc nhưng mình không rành lắm, trích lên đây để các bác cùng tìm hiểu.

sevestan
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Use yer Nak till she starts smoking then replace W/ any iof various $10-$15 cd players available at local Goodwill…yer DAC is fine!
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holmz OP
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@sevestan 
Use yer Nak till she starts smoking then replace W/ any iof various $10-$15 cd players available at local Goodwill…yer DAC is fine!

I am likely to agree.

Once I replaced the store bought RCAs with some other interconnects it is sounding nice again.

So some slow progress is happening.

I will start moving over CDs to FLAC when I get the time.
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fuzztone
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"How does one feed a DAC?"
You need a digital source. A cheap CD digital out or $100 worth of single board network player are much better than any stinking computer.
If you need CDs in a car you are in trouble, new ones don't have CD players.
Rip your CDs and play the files, it's much more convenient.
Cars have had USB-A's for over 10 years.
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