Bloody hell they've gone up since I bought one for £100Very interesting but seem to be more like £300+ on eBay... But will keep an eye out!
Hold on, I'm talking rubbish just found one on eBay, sold in November for £85! Sorry...Bloody hell they've gone up since I bought one for £100
The Caiman mk2 I bought off here is superb.Beresford with a linear psu upgrade. £200.
Not sure if this works or not. (in the heading) and may be fixable in the description .. so no telling if it works as a DAC but certainly not working as a CD player ..Here's a curve-ball for you and bang-on the budget:
Cambridge Audio 740C
Yes, it's a CD player, but with twin Wolfson DACs, Analog Devices upsampling to 24/384, and most importantly two digital inputs, each of which can be either optical or coax, it makes a useful DAC with a different flavour to a lot of the ESS Sabre-based standalones. And you get CD playback thrown in for free
Cheers, following this
Great shout but I missed it, sold this arvo!!Chord Mojo on eBay from moorgate-acoustics with six months warranty.
The CCA worked fine with my mojo I used it in a bed room system the CCA powered by a battery power bank you can connect the mojo also if you have a bank with fast charging capacity and a second usb output.
Plenty of 3.5 trs to RCA plug adapter cables on Amazon and eBay.
[URL]https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165...G8tV1NoubramRdR18SimE5X0=|tkp:Bk9SR9ymrsuvYQ.[/URL]
Cheers! After much overthinking I;ve decided I want something with headphone amp integrated as this gives me more flexibility in future..@bullinachinashop
Grab this from the classifieds, its a stonking DAC for very very sensible money.
https://www.hifiwigwam.com/threads/cambridge-dac-magic-100.115030/
No, you are not talking rubbish, I sold mine about 2 years ago and from memory it went for around £350 - £400 ish. I believe they date back to 1989 and were claimed by Musical Fidelity to be the first stand alone DAC. Personally I think they are a beautifully smooth sounding DACs but not that detailed in comparison to modern designs. Of the current crop my choice would be a s/h Mojo.Hold on, I'm talking rubbish just found one on eBay, sold in November for £85! Sorry...
After replying to you earlier this morning, I've just switched this out and back to the D10s, converting to DSD using HQ Player, and to be honest, it sounds 'different' and, therefore, maybe, seems 'better'!!The Cayin is my current favourite.
Thanks I've PMd Andrew as he'd had already kindly offered to lend me another DAC on trial. I'll have a chat to him about it. Good to here you rate it as there's not many reviews online@bullinachinashop
This covers, your need for a DAC + HA. I've had it here recently on loan, whilst my DAC was away for further pimping and you'd struggle to better it for the money. It really is a superb sounding DAC, clean, open, rich & detailed.
https://www.hifiwigwam.com/threads/geek-pulse-xfi-dac-and-lpsu.114194/#post-2348176