Recommendations on a Warm Sounding DAC under $1100.00
Currently I have a Black Ice Glass FX Tube DAC that sounds great, it’s just that I purchased a Matrix TT-1 Streamer Transport, that sounds amazing and appears is not compatible with the Black Ice via USB due to the clocking circuitry in the TT-1.It works great via Coaxial but I’m really interested in trying the I2S input as well as USB.
My set up tends to be on the forward side and not looking for “The DAC of The Week” that so often is promoted on Youtube, so any thoughts on a warm sounding DAC that anyone has experience with in my price range would be greatly appreciated.
+1 @jjss49 – This user really really knows what he's talking about. I've liked the Orchard MHDT DAC, the Schiit Bifrost was too bright and I got rid of it. Very happy with my Holo Audio Spring but the other less expensive models are worth a very serious look. |
Hi skiznfliz! Emotiva makes a remarkably good DAC for under $1000. I have 8 DACs, some costing over $1k, but the Emotiva is my favorite. Its output is adjustable in half db increments. Very handy if you are recording off the internet. |
If you had paid 50 dollars extra for the forkbeard module on the Bifrost, you would have gotten access to PEQ..... EQ away to warmth, whilst retaining the "purity". Otherwise, it will be just another case of ...is it warm? is it cold? oh, that recording’s too warm?? that recording’s too cold??...it feels warm for 2 recordings???...it feels cold on another 3 recordings??? and so on... I am sure the holo spring could feel a li’l cold too one day, depending on what you played on it (back on to the dac merry-go-round, it shall be). Or one could always get an amp with some tone controls in it too....better than the audiophile genius process of "tone controls cable changes for every other recording", etc @hilde45 wrote
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