imightbewrong
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I am looking to get my system back to being good for high quality music - previously I had a Chord DAC64 and Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista integrated amp, and still have a a pair of B&W 805s stand-mount speakers. I really enjoyed the sound of this system. I swapped the DAC and amp for an Arcam AVR600 for AV - it sounds ok but very boring for music compared to the old system.
I'm starting a project to make a semi-dedicated AV room and will be getting a decent HiFi two-channel amp with HT bypass mode to drive the fronts. Maybe/probably another Musical Fidelity. The system will be fed by some streamer - previously it was the optical feed from a Sonos - and it probably well be again, but doesn't have to be.
Primary use-case is for feeding the amp. A headphone port would be a bonus but not essential.
I am wondering how all the many DACs stack up, in particular in the Chord line-up, and old vs. new. The current DACs being:
Qutest. c. £1000
Hugo 2. c. £1600 (same as above but with headphone amp)
Hugo TT2. £3-4K (as above but bigger / better)
Hugo Dave. £too much
Or the 'last generation' on the used market:
Hugo (1) - c. £600
Hugo TT (1) - c. £1300
Or really old
DAC64 - c. £500
QBD76 - c £1200
So given that my old DAC64 sounded pretty good - and I am happy to go second hand, how would some of these stack up? e.g. Qutest vs TT1 vs TT2? The TT1 seems at a pretty attractive price point.
Will try to find some places to demo, but not that easy with the second hand pieces.
Any thoughts welcome on the differential between some of these.
I'm starting a project to make a semi-dedicated AV room and will be getting a decent HiFi two-channel amp with HT bypass mode to drive the fronts. Maybe/probably another Musical Fidelity. The system will be fed by some streamer - previously it was the optical feed from a Sonos - and it probably well be again, but doesn't have to be.
Primary use-case is for feeding the amp. A headphone port would be a bonus but not essential.
I am wondering how all the many DACs stack up, in particular in the Chord line-up, and old vs. new. The current DACs being:
Qutest. c. £1000
Hugo 2. c. £1600 (same as above but with headphone amp)
Hugo TT2. £3-4K (as above but bigger / better)
Hugo Dave. £too much
Or the 'last generation' on the used market:
Hugo (1) - c. £600
Hugo TT (1) - c. £1300
Or really old
DAC64 - c. £500
QBD76 - c £1200
So given that my old DAC64 sounded pretty good - and I am happy to go second hand, how would some of these stack up? e.g. Qutest vs TT1 vs TT2? The TT1 seems at a pretty attractive price point.
Will try to find some places to demo, but not that easy with the second hand pieces.
Any thoughts welcome on the differential between some of these.