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In Reply to: RE: What's the price for this little jewel? posted by Mike K on September 25, 2014 at 08:57:30
$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
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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
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