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DAC for Solo UL and HD650?
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    Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 7:52pm
Was considering a Schiit Bifrost, but am open to suggestions, in the similar price range. Thanks!
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The new Audiolab DAC is very good.
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If only! considering an imminent purchase of the solo UL, the M-DAC is out of my price bracket. What Hi Fi had some very good things to say about it though.
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Then buy an inexpensive dac to tie you over till you can buy what you want. Are you in the USA? If so check out the new Grant Dac11, it is an unit I wan to try as well as the Audio-GD NFB-10SE.
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I have been using a modified Beresford Caiman fed by coax from a Terratec soundcard as a computer based source and was very happy with its performance feeding the Solo UL and ATH-W1000.

The modifications are fairly extensive, but they can be done in UK by Tirna Electronics and add around 100 GBP to the cost.

Worth noting that it responded positively to the use of a quality coax interconnect from the soundcard, giving better performance than either the optical or USB inputs.
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Those mentioned DACs are pretty hard to get here in the UK, and I really do not want to have to go down any modification routes. just one nice solid box and be done.
Exceptional USB implementation is a must. Has anyone used the Arcam rDac? I'm afraid the combo with a UL/650 might be too warm/lush.
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Sorry I can now see my earlier post was not very helpful!
 
What do you want to plug into the DAC please? The Cambridge Audio DACMagic does a pretty good job on SPDIF with several inputs for £200+ new, this may be worth a look on e-bay.
 
Exceptional USB performance may be harder on a budget. Many of the DACS seem to stop at 48kHz and 16 bit.
 


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Jon

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