Cocksure
Well-known Member
I have just spent the past 2 weeks copying my cd's on to a spare hard drive on my pc using exact audio copy, and whilst I love the near instantaneous selection and how I can go from I Feel Pretty to Hells Bells in under a second via foobar phone app, the sound I'm getting I don't.
I was going to get a Asus essence stx2, but as I am currently using a xonar hdav 1.3 that is also "shielded" there is little point, as the issue for me is that the music sounds to fast at times, the timings are wrong I believe the term is.
So my options are a dac or a streaming device, budget will be (won't be for a few months) around the 1200 quid mark.
I have no interest in being able to stream music around the house, only to my marantaz av8802a, which whilst it can decode the music itself, it doesn't produce a sound I like.
At the moment I am leaning towards getting a dac but have concerns about using a usb or coaxial connection to the pc, as will this effect sound quality? No such worries with a streaming device, but will it allow the rapid access and setup options (ie by folder instead of album as a pc can do).
The roksan k3 dac appeals as I like the sound of their CD players, no idea on streaming device. A built in CD player is not needed as I have my arcam cd36t for that.
All files are stored as wav if that makes a difference. Any recommendations would be appreciated
I was going to get a Asus essence stx2, but as I am currently using a xonar hdav 1.3 that is also "shielded" there is little point, as the issue for me is that the music sounds to fast at times, the timings are wrong I believe the term is.
So my options are a dac or a streaming device, budget will be (won't be for a few months) around the 1200 quid mark.
I have no interest in being able to stream music around the house, only to my marantaz av8802a, which whilst it can decode the music itself, it doesn't produce a sound I like.
At the moment I am leaning towards getting a dac but have concerns about using a usb or coaxial connection to the pc, as will this effect sound quality? No such worries with a streaming device, but will it allow the rapid access and setup options (ie by folder instead of album as a pc can do).
The roksan k3 dac appeals as I like the sound of their CD players, no idea on streaming device. A built in CD player is not needed as I have my arcam cd36t for that.
All files are stored as wav if that makes a difference. Any recommendations would be appreciated