Dac's? anyone tried the new Cambridge Dacmagic-B


I have just tried the new (to give it's full title) Cambridge Audio Azur Dacmagic-B Upsampling Dac.....very nice and available for silly money..upscales to 24bitx192khz, has balanced out/usb in and x2 normal inputs, can process between 16 - 24 bit input via Wolfson Dacs.....forget paying stupid money try one!
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Just returned the one I had after a week,bought it to try to spring some life into my old Pioneer Elite player,no improvment at all. Made in china and very cheap,the power cord is the type you get with a $50 cell phone.Im sure it would work great on a PC,as for it being a "GREAT BARGIN"....buy one,look at the way its made,have a listen, and you be the judge.IMHO the only people calling this thing a bargin are the ones selling it.I have a Benchmark DAC1 on loan,its twice the price and ten times the DAC,and it will still be around in five years.
Wow. Mine is great, solid, big soundstage. use it with a AR vt-60. and Acoustic energy AE-2's. Micromega transport. Very nice. At the price range how could you bash it?
Great DAC use it to upgrade sonics of marantz cd 67se. No downside just improvement in soundstage and the ability to bring out subtle details that I have previously missed in familiar recordings. Well worth the minor investment especially as I was willing to write off a large number of cds as unlistenable (older recordings from early cd productions}. I also plan to try to revive the sonics of a marantz changer as I really like the ability to load up to five cds and sit back and enjoy without getting up to reload. I would highly recommend. I have 4 independent systems. Different areas of my house from tubes to solid state with and without autoformers.