DT79
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Hi folks,
Looking for a DAC to drive my headphone amp.
At the moment my headphone set-up is an NJC headphone amp (lesser known but very high quality) and Senn HD650 headphones. I’m feeding the headphone amp from my Lyngdorf amp, but since the analogue outputs are being used for something else I’m using the digital output which obviously needs to go through a DAC before going in to the NJC.
Because I don’t do a great deal of headphone listening (maybe 5% of total) it didn’t seem worth spending a lot on a DAC, plus I’m running out of rack space so I got a cheap ‘in-line’ USB powered DAC from Amazon - a ‘Techole’ for £12.
I think I may have gone a bit too far in the cost saving stakes though bearing in mind what’s up and down stream of it and I’d like to buy something a bit better.
Can anyone recommend a DAC that meets the following criteria?
Cheers!
Dan
Looking for a DAC to drive my headphone amp.
At the moment my headphone set-up is an NJC headphone amp (lesser known but very high quality) and Senn HD650 headphones. I’m feeding the headphone amp from my Lyngdorf amp, but since the analogue outputs are being used for something else I’m using the digital output which obviously needs to go through a DAC before going in to the NJC.
Because I don’t do a great deal of headphone listening (maybe 5% of total) it didn’t seem worth spending a lot on a DAC, plus I’m running out of rack space so I got a cheap ‘in-line’ USB powered DAC from Amazon - a ‘Techole’ for £12.
I think I may have gone a bit too far in the cost saving stakes though bearing in mind what’s up and down stream of it and I’d like to buy something a bit better.
Can anyone recommend a DAC that meets the following criteria?
- Small form factor (as small as possible but definitely no bigger than the NJC which is ~10cm wide * 8cm tall).
- Does justice to a my sources and a dedicated headphone amp and HD650s
- < £200 (keeping this in proportion to how much headphone listening I actually do)
Cheers!
Dan