There's a reason the Denafrips Ares 2 DAC is so widely praised by reviewers and users alike......It's Wonderful and Musical and is compared to DACs that cost 2 or 3 times the price of the Ares 2. It's definitely a DAC you should have on your list.
How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC)
I am looking primarily at the Schitt Yggdrasil or the Topping D90.
Some example of what is commonly done would be great.
The system currently consists of:
I also have a Home Theatre pre, which is Roon capable, on the way… So that maybe does some of this for me as well?
But to be totally honest, the digital side is a bit of mystery to me.
I have always thought we plug in a CD player and the signal comes out. (Maybe with some nuance in DACs, clock jitter, and filtering to separate the higher end from the lower end products.)
- How does one feed those?
- I am assuming any sort of CD transport would output the bit stream?
- or… they get saved to file and played from some media player into the DACs.
Some example of what is commonly done would be great.
The system currently consists of:
- TT —> Audio Research PH2
- An old Nakamichi 5 disk CD player
- TV
- Audible Illusions line stage (New tunes on the way, but it still sound OK to me with the old tube in it)
- Prima Luna (with GoldenLion and TS KT-120 one the way… and I might I’ll get the VTL mono blocks 100w/ch serviced)
- Vandy 2C and Vandy sub
I also have a Home Theatre pre, which is Roon capable, on the way… So that maybe does some of this for me as well?
But to be totally honest, the digital side is a bit of mystery to me.
I have always thought we plug in a CD player and the signal comes out. (Maybe with some nuance in DACs, clock jitter, and filtering to separate the higher end from the lower end products.)