The Schiit products are amazingly good and are made or assembled in the USA. I have a small stack of Schiit right here on my desktop, the Valhalla 2 and the Modius as a headphone setup. At work I have their "Hel" headphone amp + DAC. I would not consider the Zen Air thing as it's just odd shape. If it were me I'd avoid the Zen Air and go with something better, like the Schiit or other higher rated offerings and build a solid little system.
Table top DAC and Amp advice needed
Hi guys,
Please help me with some table top DAC and AMP advice as I don’t have much table space and I am hoping to reuse my pair of Q Acoustics 3020i and a subwoofer for my pc and also use it for audio to my gaming headphones.
I was advised to consider this setup:
Zen Air DAC and Schiit Gjallarhorn
As someone with zero experience with any of these items I have only read that stuff from Topping, Icepower or Aiyima may be a better buy.
Many thanks for any advice and a low-ish budget.
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Hi ghdprentice, Many thanks for your reply and after a bit of research I have selected a couple of different items. DAC: Topping DX3 Pro +
Integrated Amp: Rogersound Labs iA255.1 SMSL AO200MKII Topping PA5 II Fosi V3
The reviews of the Gjallarhorn on this and other forums seem to suggest it is rather expensive and slightly behind these other in terms of performance. I'm leaning towards the RSL iA255.1, the AO200MKII is a little large for a desktop amp as this setup will be purely used for my pc entertainment (gaming, movies and music), the V3 is seriously interesting at that price range too and I'll want a test for the PA5 II
Any advice would be appreciated thanks. |
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