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And headphone hits the big boys.
Looks pretty, but can it fight?
"We are all in God's hands... and God is a malign thug."
-Mark Twain
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800.00 is what I am hearing with the crystal dacs
$800.
But there is ONLY ONE ANALOG INPUT and it's a mini-plug.
WTF? The world has not gone completely digital.
That's a fatal flaw, at least for me.
Haven't these clowns ever heard of SACD? Or VINYL?
"We are all in God's hands... and God is a malign thug."
-Mark Twain
Not with a Headphone amp built in, not the other way 'round.
"Shhhhh!"...They'll start talking about it again.You can get a very good solid state Headphone amplifier for this price or a(possibly)'fair' DAC, which they bundled a HP amp to. I think of these"components" as"Integrated Headphone Amps." (They are sold as Headphone Amps,so your argument is with the manufacturers* for the inaccurate labeling)
I tend to prefer to buy items produced by Companies whose businesses are geared toward specific types of Components (& that's why I'm "broke"; happy with my Audio System, but definitely "broke")
(*I don't know what Marantz is calling this)
Edits: 10/02/14
An older Marantz DV9600, which I use as my main Silver Disc Spinner and a newer but now also obsolete Network Player NA7004. Both have so-called HDAM output circuitry involved somehow in the headphone output and both act as great headphone amps for my HD600.
In fact, for a time I was using the NA7004 as my office system USB DAC/Headphone Amp and found it to be outstanding driving the HD600.
Now that I have figured out a way to get Ethernet up to my main system, I use the NA7004 mostly for its Air Play capability.
If indeed the HD-DAC1 has an even BETTER headphone output than my two Marantz units (not sure it's not the same circuit) then it is surely worth a look.
Well curiousity(which is normally my downfall)got the better of me so I read what Marantz had to say about this "item" & I had a little chuckle
In the very first line they talk about this being a 'powerful headphone amp'
due to the HDAM Tech. it used in a current series is now being applied to this component. In effect it is a "Headphone Amp" they've decided to call
"HD-DAC1" because you will sell at least 3 or 4x as many units this way.
Just about everyone is looking for DACs;You will reduce the amt of people who will even look at this if you call it a "HP Amplifier"
Weird indeed, especially when you consider that Marantz still makes some pretty good turntables and CD players...
Some idiot in upper management said 'oh, the headphone craze is just people on their computers, we don't need to cater to regular hi-fi people'.
Idiot.
"We are all in God's hands... and God is a malign thug."
-Mark Twain
I don't know if you can refer to Marantz as 1 of the "Big Boys" anymore here in the States ?
They may have been considered that many years ago when they were competing with Companies like Fisher ,but that was a completely different "ballgame"
back then. I'm not sure they've done enough lately to retain that status.
Their equipment has always been nice to look at though !!!
Might be more interesting if it had a provision for a set of Stax phones built in. I suspect many buyers will be the same market that Stax courts.
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada
It might be worth it.
That would be very unique indeed as Stax headphones would require that the amplifier
would need an additional electrostatic amplification section as dynamic headphone amplifiers
won' t drive "stats".
I believe most Electrostatic HP amplifiers start at about $5k (other the one produced by King
Sound which is about half that or a Woo Audio "E-static" amp that goes for about 4k )
Woo has a couple of options below 5K.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
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