The advantage of buying a good DAC is that you can use it also with a laptop to play ripped CD's. This can be superior to any transport or player. This was demonstrated at CES last week.
Should I buy a DAC?
I am trying to decide whether to buy a new DAC or a universal SACD/DVD-A player for my HT system. I currently have a Toshiba progressive scan DVD player with Optical and coax outputs. I run the optical out into my B/K AVR507. Thus, I currently use the AVR's DAC. I use the player only as a transport. However, I want to move into the world of multi channel SACD/DVD-A and the DAC in my AVR only has unbalanced analog inputs for the uulti-channel DVD-A/SACD format. Will my DVD player, which is not a SACD/DVD-A player, be able to transport the digital information to a stand alone DAC? If so, I could continue to use my current DVD player as a transport and invest my dollars more wisely in a DAC. I am looking to spend about 1-1.5K either way. Please advise me on what my best option is...Thanks.
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