enca Wrote: > Paul, > > I think I have the same Copland setup as you CDA266/CSA28 and have just > got a SB3 for Christmas running on B&W CDM 7SE speakers. Out of the box > running via the phono outs it's clearly not as good as the CSA28. I > currently have the digital output running through my aging Denon > AVR3300 and back into the Copland which is an improvement but still > some way off. It clearly has potential though. > > I'd love to get this sounding at least as good as the CSA28. I'm > thinking of having a bash at Heuers power supply and adding a DAC. > DACs are a new area for me do you, or anyone else, have any suggestions > for something that would be suitable at up to the £1k mark (I'm based in > the UK). > > Cheers > Neil.
Hi Neil, As the Squeezebox3 premisses are clinical albait a little on the flat side, u dont wan´t an upsamling dac because that could possibly add up for listening fatigue because of oversharp soundprojection. It has been sugested a optimal combination could be an oversampling dac with possibly tubes to soften and give liquidity with their specific rolloff. I wouldn´t use and upsampling dac with the squeezebox. I have 2 sugestions wich booth represent musicality and dynamics and liquidity in a very convincing and involving way. LiteAudio dac-38 (Chinese company with HongKong office)using 4 BurrBrown PCM1704K. 8x oversampling with soft roll off. Uses same dac chips as used in wadia or krell reference cd for ultra budget price 450$!. It is said to almost equal to discrete dac PRISM sound da-2. http://tinyurl.com/aqbqa LiteAudio dac-60 or dac-72 with tubes, BB pcm1704K and BB pcm1702 chips respectively. These could possibly be and even better choice then the dac-38 by the nature of balancing up the squeezebox3´s clinical sounding presentation via the digital out. Dac-60: http://tinyurl.com/9yxy8 Dac-72: http://tinyurl.com/84r57 There is only 1 reservation and that is with the LiteAudio dac-38. It´s seems it has RFI and disturbs the Tuner in a hifi chain. But if u use no tuner it´s a no matter. Well these would be my bets having done some research after reading people impressions with the Benchmark-1 DAC. I havent bought any of these yet so all is speculation but based on me doing some serious digging. I am planning to order the dac-38 however but not going to use it with the squeezebox though as i ended up returning mine during the eval period as i am not intersted in modding a finished product even if its only bying a new PSU KIT. -- themite ------------------------------------------------------------------------ themite's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18491 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
