In Reply to: What is a DAC? posted by Matthewv on March 19, 2007 at 19:25:31:
In a nutshell, a single box cd player can be broken down into two parts…a transport and DAC. The transport takes care of reading the data off the disk and the DAC does the digital analog conversion, hence the name “DACâ€. An external dac can be connected to a CD, DVD player or a dedicated transport through the optical output. Adding one to a CD or DVD player, basically bypasses the internal dac and uses the player as a transport. However, advocates of single box players feel separating the two causes jitter and timing issues.
Believe what your ears say - not hearsay.
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