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Devices => Sound Cards, DAC's, Receivers, Speakers, and Headphones => Topic started by: senojhrj1 on December 03, 2013, 12:08:26 pm

Title: DragonFly and JRiver
Post by: senojhrj1 on December 03, 2013, 12:08:26 pm

I am using latest Media Center 18.  I use it on Dell XPS 8500 i7 Windows 7 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 620.  It is connected to Marantz receiver with HDMI.  I have read about the DragonFly and I cannot determine if there are any benefits using it to connect to the receiver instead of the HDMI.  What do you recommend?  Thanks! Harry

Title: Re: DragonFly and JRiver
Post by: csimon on December 04, 2013, 05:00:59 am

The Dragonfly is a USB DAC?  I think HDMI will give you more flexibility with uncompressed surround channels but apart from that I think it's a case of whether the Dragonfly, or the myriad of other USB DACs, has better DACs than the Marantz, and this is the type of question that could go round in circles and the only conclusion is that it may or may not sound better to you personally.

Title: Re: DragonFly and JRiver
Post by: senojhrj1 on December 04, 2013, 05:32:55 am

csimon
Thanks for your reply.  I understand, and I had almost concluded it was a competition of the DAC's.  I like the sound from the Marantz and you have confirmed my thoughts. 

Title: Re: DragonFly and JRiver
Post by: mikemcsw on February 13, 2014, 01:33:02 am

i agree with you, i dont see any benefit of using a dragonfly dac, when your marantz has a built in dac that is probably better...
what marantz do you have?

Title: Re: DragonFly and JRiver
Post by: JimH on February 13, 2014, 06:51:47 am

The Dragonfly has been fine in my experience.  I suspect the few problems people have had are USB related.  There was a Microsoft patch for USB on Win 8.  I think there's a link in the Weird Problems link in my signature.  Or search at MS.