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RE: Tinnitus and digital sound...

I don't use computers for music and haven't purchased a music server so I don't have any experience with using the DAC for that purpose. The Rega DAC needs a USB to SPDIF converter to take advantage of higher resolution (>48K sample rate) music files. The updated DAC-R now has high resolution USB capabilities.

The Rega DAC is currently being discounted by most retailers since the DAC-R came out and you do see the original DAC on the used market every so often. My hunch is that it's a good DAC for the money and people are hanging on to them. I happened to find out about one through a retailer that was accepting it as a trade-in.

After hearing what the Rega DAC can do for the Apollo, I'm convinced of using external DACs with a decent, but not high end, CDP. I will confess to wanting a Parasound Halo CD-1, though.

I have only auditioned two pieces of audio gear, both of them speakers, in all the years that I've purchased stereo equipment. Living in rural USA has it's advantages but auditioning audio gear isn't one of them. :-) So I've learned to do my homework online and find out as much as I can about a product before buying. I especially look for somewhat negative or ho-hum reviews to see where people differ in their perceptions. (And truly contradictory remarks are often the result of other problems in the system or improper setup.)

I can't give you a comparison of the Rega DAC with any other DAC, only that it made the Rega Apollo, an already "analog" sounding CDP sound even more so. As long you're not looking for the ultimate in detail and frequency extension, which I don't need or necessarily care for (etched digital hyper-detail just doesn't sound natural to me), the Rega may work for you. I wanted a way to listen to CDs without irritating my tinnitus and I found what I was looking for.

Edited: My comment about digital hyper-detail is specific to the etched sound on some CD recordings. Etched is described in Stereophile's Sounds Like? An Audio Glossary as "Very crisp and sharply outlined, focused to an almost excessive degree.

Refer to the link below for a good discussion on the Rega DAC.




Edits: 01/10/15
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