Benchmark Dac1 vs Ack dAck


Anyone compare these two over-acheivers? id be interested in your impressions of both or either of them...
mbacinello
I'm using with an old JVC XLZ 1050TN, a cheap Sony DVP655 SACD/DVD player, and an Adcom 750. With the Sony, there is some slight popping sound out of the speakers when you load a disc, otherwise the three sound virtually the same to me - I can't tell any difference. The Ack does not seem to be picky about transports!
I also have a dAck! and am delighted with it. It's much less hashy than the EAD DSP 7000 III that I had, which is no slouch in this area; beautifully silent background and no power cord to upgrade. I'm using it with an EAD T1000 with a Mapleshade/Insound Zepher dig link which is naturally open yet gorgeously smooth. It doesn't work at all with my Alesis Masterlink as a transport. The SPDIF output of that is not a true SPDIF and the ack doesn't see it at all. I did upgrade the output coupling caps, replacing the 3.3 mF AuraCaps with a pair of 5 mF DynamiCaps bypassed with a .01, totalling 10 mF per channel. This totally ameliorated my reservations about the bass of the stock unit and improved everything else as well.