New flavor of the month DAC

Vincent Kars

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In case of small portable USB DACs there is the flavor of the month DAC
There is the Audioquest DragonFly doing 24/96.
This was pretty soon surpassed by the Meridian Explorer doing 24/192
Now there is the Herus supporting PCM up to 24/352.8, DXD and DS64/128
 

Bruce B

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Light Harmonic has one they're working on now. Think it's around $149
 

MylesBAstor

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In case of small portable USB DACs there is the flavor of the month DAC
There is the Audioquest DragonFly doing 24/96.
This was pretty soon surpassed by the Meridian Explorer doing 24/192
Now there is the Herus supporting PCM up to 24/352.8, DXD and DS64/128

What exactly is the point?
 

Phelonious Ponk

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But isn't all thar processing power rendered moot by anemic, noisy bus power? Or do these products high-end origins make all that ok?

Tim
 

rockitman

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interesting new portable pcm hi-rez and dsd playback..
http://www.astellnkern.com/
 

JackD201

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But isn't all thar processing power rendered moot by anemic, noisy bus power? Or do these products high-end origins make all that ok?

Tim

All these ding dong dongles have to do to earn their place is to be better than what's inside the computer and be as good as or better than their competition. What's provenance got to do with that?
 

Julf

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interesting new portable pcm hi-rez and dsd playback..

Perfect for that once-in-a-lifetime walk in the empty desert when the background noise level is low enough for "real hi-res" music... But wouldn't you just want to enjoy that silence instead of listening to music?
 

zog

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I think the idea of a small hi-fi dac is great. It suits someone who has to take long-haul flights. I am armed with a laptop, dac, and noise-cancelling headphones (maybe a hipflask).
 

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