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Re-discovered Satellite Radio..

About a year ago, I had purchased Sirius SR-H550 home tuner and 3 year Satellite subscription. It sat there for a year, because I did not like the sound from it.
Recently, I was re-arranging my audio gear and connected the output of SR-H550 to the Apogee Mini-dac via optical cable.
Boy what a difference!
I love it, fount a station that plays my kind of music(Channel 4 Easy listening). Now I am listening to the Satellite at home all the time.
Granted, it is not CD, but it is clean and warm(Thanks to Apogee mini-dac to Balanced out to Mark Levinson).

Now my search has begun for a real DAC with balance out. Any suggestions?

Thanks
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avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Well one advantage with TWC boxes you can change the audio to "2ch",in the menu. Along with a great dac and a great cable;great near-cd is possible. I have an old Sony Sat box,converted, to have a coax---same quality as cable. If you spend; the quality is there. Believe me!!
My dac: Audiomeca Enkainthus,cable: Concierto Violin, silver.---Like tweeking; sometimes money works.
nglazer
846 posts
 
Avguygeorge,

I thought the coax (digital) outputs on satellite boxes outputs on analog, not digital, so a DAC should have no effect on sound quality? Am I wrong, or does it depend on the box?

Neal
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Most satellite boxes have a toslinc. I had a Panasonic sat. box,it only had a toslinc.---I also had a Sony sat. box. On that, I had Theta install a cox board and it was swell. Most cable boxes have a coax and with those you can change the output format to 2ch digital./ instead of dd 5.1. (in the menu)
nglazer
846 posts
 
Thanks, Avguygeorge. I will look into it.

Neal
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