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Looking for a DAC $2500-$4000

Okay the digital part of my 2.1 system consists of a Line Magnetic 845 Premium Tube Amp, Tekton Encore Speakers, Cambridge CXN V2 Streamer, and an Oppo 205.

I'm running the Cambridge through the Oppo 205 to use it's DAC.

The Cambridge has a nice DAC that has been described as an every man's Streamer. It has a musical more analog sound to it.  The Oppo's DAC is more detailed but also sounds more analytical or clinical.

What I am looking for is something that can be both on a higher level.

The reviews I've read about the Musical Fidelity M6x DAC ($2500) seems to be what I'm looking for. 

Do any of you fine lovers of Streaming have any suggestions that I might add to my list to research? In the $2500 to $4000 range. Thanks for the help.

meambler
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pindac
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@meambler I am a Gon Member and reasonably active on the Gon, across a few of the Categories.

My observations are the Digital Section, is one that is seen to be evolving constantly and not locked down to a few regular contributors. The increased contributions does enable a observation to occur only, not impacting on the Threads Growth.

Googling and Bookmarking makes easy work of creating shortlists for furthering  investigations. 

meambler OP
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@pindac  That’s what I did. I created a Bookmarks folder named DACs, copy and pasted each DAC that has been recommended here in google and bookmarked each google page to the DACs folder.  

 

meambler OP
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Those of you who have recommended the Gustard R30. It doesn’t come with WiFi. I am currently using a Cambridge CXN V2 that also doesn’t have WiFi internally but it came with a WiFi dongle that gets plugged into a USB slot and allows WiFi usage.

Will a WiFi dongle work with the Gustard R30?

 

soix
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Those of you who have recommended the Gustard R30. It doesn’t come with WiFi.

Fear not, you have two very good and relatively inexpensive options.  Get a Wi-Fi extender and run an Ethernet cable from that to the Gustard, or for a little more you could get a Mesh setup and run a cable from the Mesh node to the streamer.  Lots of people here have done this with great results. 

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@meambler wifi is common in consumer products, whereas enthusiast products  have ethernet ports as standard because its more reliable. Its cheap to use a pair of Ethernet over Powerline adaptors and pretty well behaved if you have only the 1 pair in use. As to streamer endpoints, if you are using Qobuz exclusively, Holo Red and Sonore ultraRendu both support Qobuz Connect with their current software.

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