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DAC suggestions?

Hello!

I’m looking for a new DAC suggestion for my 2.1 office room set up. The room is 12x11 ft with a 10 ft ceiling.  The EverSolo DMP-A8 seems interesting.  Currently, I have the following:

Rotel CD14 (Water 1m RCA cable)

Michi X3 (Audioquest Thunder 2m Power cable)

Rel T/9X (Rocket 88 3m Rel Sub cable)

Sonus Faber Sonetto V Walnut (William Tell Zero 12ft Speaker cable)

iMac, using Roon and Tidal (USB B 1.5m Carbon cable)

I listen to jazz and RnB mostly and prefer a warmer sound. I’m happy with my current setup but feel adding a DAC and digital streamer would be nice versus going through my iMac.  Thank you so much for your time.

wisemenofgotham
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oddiofyl
4,605 posts
 

Eversolo FW and support are pretty bad in my experience.   Lot of money to spend for decent hardware and non existent support.   

I've been waiting over a year for them to correct an issue caused by FW .    USB won't recognize a DAC it worked perfectly with for a year.   The last FW recognized DAC but no sound.  Fortunately there is a coax output as well.   Thats not a fix though.  

The worst company I've ever dealt with in 45 years of this hobby.  

mahler123
4,113 posts
 

How about a Streamer-DAC and then the PC is out of the equation?  What exactly is your budget?  I am very happy with Cambridge Audio, or the Wiim line might be interesting 

soix
11,257 posts
 

Budget?  Are you open to used?  What improvements and wha5 sound characteristics are most important to you?

wisemenofgotham OP
4 posts
 

Open to new or used, ideally want to be in the $3-4k range.  

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