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My New Emotiva XDA-1 DAC

Posted by stereo5 (A) on August 6, 2011 at 16:05:56

I took delivery a few days ago for a refurbished Emotiva dac. So far, I only have very positive things to say about it. All my observations is with the dac in my system using my choices of music. I am very impressed with the build quality. The layout is nice and open and the dac has many high quality audiophile parts inside. There are no less than 6 digital inputs so I won't have to worry about growing out of the unit for quite a while.

The dac is dead quiet. I get no ticks or pops when switching the digital inputs. Presently, I have my HP laptop with an external 1 terrabyte usb3 drive running J rivers Media Center 16 hooked up to the usb input with a Kimber usb cable. I also have my Sony SCD777ES sacd player hooked up to the coaxial input using Emotiva's x Digital coax cable. I spent a lot of time comparing the dac in my sacd player with the dac in the Emotiva and they sound remarkibly similar yet the Emotiva sounds more musical. I am extremely pleased with the sound via usb and I have been listening to my music rips which are all in FLAC mode.

I feel my system has made quite a leap forward and feel I will be satisified for quite some time. Notice the picture of the interior of the dac. I feel I have made a very wise purchase.

Bob


"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."

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