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In Reply to: RE: DAC with Wyred4Sound modified Sonos posted by Mcanaday@princeton.edu on November 29, 2014 at 12:02:43
Sonos does 16/44 only.
I heard it once and I do think its internal DAC middle of the road.
Step 1 might be to get the unit and see what it does in your system.
Step two might be to combine it with an external DAC.
Sonos SPDIF out is probably not the best there is too but a lot of DACs are pretty good in coping with input jitter.
The Terradac you mentioned, re-clockes. A lot of DACs use asynchronous sample rate conversion to cope with the input jitter.
If you are still not happy step 3 might be the W4S mod.
The Well Tempered Computer
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I have the Sonos Connect (with Deezer Elite beta), and use it with my (heavily modded) upsampling MSB Link III DAC, Monarch Audio DIP, and JISCO jitter attenuator. Although my digital equipment is more than 10 years old, the sound from the Connect is at least as good as the Pioneer DV-525 I was using as a transport playing CDs. (I have not listened to the DAC in the Connect.) In fact, I'm so impressed by it that I reach for it before I even think of finding a CD.
The streaming portion of the the Connect is a good piece of equipment. If you buy it, don't give up on it until you've tried a decent external DAC.
There is no DAC that will reduce the jitter of the Sonos enough to be interesting IME. Jitter reduction in most DACs is insufficient, and sometimes even making things worse if they resample using an inferior clock powered from an inferior power supply.
I disagree. The output from my Sonos through a Schiit or Peachtree DAC is outstanding.
Compared to what?
Anything else that I've tried over the past 60 years. There was no comparison implied in my comment; only my observation about the sound of my two systems using Sonos.
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