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Devices => Sound Cards, DAC's, Receivers, Speakers, and Headphones => Topic started by: FenceFurniture on February 04, 2020, 05:25:24 am

Title: Need a DAC - Cambridge Audio DACMAGIC or something else?
Post by: FenceFurniture on February 04, 2020, 05:25:24 am

I need a moderate priced DAC so that I can get >48kHz sampling out of my Toshiba laptop. In another thread we have exhausted all possibilities, and a DAC is the only solution apparently.

There is no point going for a very high end DAC at the moment because for the foreseeable future I am limited to a Harman Kardon Onyx Studio 2 speaker. The "proper" system is in another room at the other end of the house and I don't have much access to it (and MC isn't connected to it).

I'm thinking Cambridge Audio DACMAGIC XS V 2.0 which I can get for AUD159 (~USD90).
https://addictedtoaudio.com.au/products/cambridge-audio-dac-magic-xs-v-2-titanium?ref=isp_rel_prd&isp_ref_pos=2

Or does the Brains Trust think something else might be better perhaps? There seem to be a few available in a similar price range - am I just being seduced by the Cambridge name?

For the hell of it I should probably mention that this is primarily for use out of the Laptop with JRiver, but I also use a Shanling M3s DAP with the Onyx speaker when I'm in the shed, and with Koss BT540i Headphones (which can be 3.5mm corded) when I'm walking. The Shanling has a USB-C port, 3.5mm port and a 2.5mm Balanced port. In other words, can I kill a couple of birds with the same stone, by being able to boost the output from the Shanling as well?

Shanling specs:
https://penonaudio.com/shanling-m3s.html?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=d62cde6a341c468c854c6756e07b5b54501f2d79-1580815194-0-AXCAm5Vv1_YDYc2kzvfxQa9h-XfNALS55hzR7a1qAO2SdVJbkR5vMeuA-5zlECM0PrJo92yH4NEQIvO1VPkinujnPcZnfjn8xYIIdRNfjXM9oEg8NIvc5SXeWRyc-orGAlutzIp9KRIbUuC2kozqkbOaERvSe5jIlGJ0-6q3XY5UM3si9k5VWUQrcAvsw4NIxPpZgRMnb0xus02DWOUvPqoR5qfZoh_npVyPf-3pCuJ0bxWGDTm8UDkDwt9L5wH2nC86T95Fpyw-rc1on5_TpR-j45uVbl_-1ja60ZsGx5mz

(I still can't figure out how to insert a link into "Shanling M3s DAP" - if I highlight the words and click insert hyperlink it just puts   (http://) around the words - nowhere to specify the link)

Title: Re: Need a DAC - Cambridge Audio DACMAGIC or something else?
Post by: RoderickGI on February 04, 2020, 05:16:59 pm

YouTube is full of good advice. i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_asDKYASy0  I'm sure you have looked there though.


URL links with name are easy.

Click the insert URL button above, (https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/Themes/core/images/bbc/url.gif) , which will insert the code: [url][/url] into your post where the cursor is sitting.

Then add in an = sign plus the URL in the correct place, like this: [url=https://penonaudio.com/shanling-m3s.html][/url]
Note that I used the direct URL to the page you used, without all the context junk.

Then add in the description you want to use for the link between the ][ brackets, like this: [url=https://penonaudio.com/shanling-m3s.html]Shanling M3s DAP[/url]

Done.

Of course, if you have already written the descriptive text, such as "Shanling M3s DAP", then you can highlight that, click the button, and then add the =https://penonaudio.com/shanling-m3s.html URL as above, for example.


Note that I have used tricks to make the code above display correctly, rather than actually insert a link, which is what the forum would normally do, like this: Shanling M3s DAP (https://penonaudio.com/shanling-m3s.html)

Title: Re: Need a DAC - Cambridge Audio DACMAGIC or something else?
Post by: FenceFurniture on February 04, 2020, 05:32:13 pm

Thanks Roderick. No I hadn't thought of Youtube for DAC advice - don't think I ever would have either.

URLs - knew there was a bit that I was missing.