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Would A DAC Help Very Much?

In about a month, I'll have my Musical Concepts hot-rodded Dynaco PAS3x and Hafler DH-500 going to a new pair of Magnepan 1.7's. Morrow cables throughout. Can't wait.

Until then, I'm running iTunes through a nice Morrow iPod cable directly to the aux input of a Sansui 9090db (then into some cheap Polk T-60s)

I'm not going to lie to you, it sounds pretty good. When I get my main system in, will I appreciate adding a DAC to the system?
paul_graham
larryken
537 posts
 
Paul, simple yet effective setup is computer usb connected to dac into your amp/integrated etc. use puremusic app with Itunes and an outboard hard drive to store your music....suggest a backup hard drive to protect all the time it took to load your cd library...better sounding setup than any cd player I've owned and I've owned some $5K plus players.
paul_graham OP
197 posts
 
Thank you all very much!!
tobias
1,534 posts
 
I use an Apogee Duet in one system and an Apogee Mini-DAC in another. The Mini-DAC is discontinued. Both it and the Duet use a FireWire connection and many say this is better adapted to audio than USB. In any case, I will attest to the great improvement in sound I got in going from the Mac's own sound output to an external converter. I've tried a few and the Apogees are great-sounding, trouble-free and will play hi-res files to boot.
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