Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac

Posted by digepix on May 9, 2017 at 05:28:35

I'm starting to investigate a new dac for my stereo. I currently use a Scott Nixon tube dac and I'm happy for the most part. Of course you wonder if you're missing out since the Nixon dac is 10 years old. First, I know asynchronous data transfer is all the rage to reduce jitter bt some say it truncates the word length and so it is no longer bit perfect. Does that matter? Do I want DSD along with PCM capability, I have a Sony SACD player but very few discs and I don't feel like I'm missing much. I'm not one of those people who has to keep up with the latest. In fact most of my stereo is over 20 years old and with periodic maintenance it may outlive me.

The question is do I live with my Nixon dac or do I need to spend money to get something I may not need?

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Topic - Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - digepix 05:28:35 05/09/17 (20)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - awesterner 02:12:57 05/13/17 (0)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - triodesteve 15:32:31 05/10/17 (2)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - digepix 15:54:49 05/10/17 (1)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - triodesteve 16:01:00 05/10/17 (0)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - Dynobot 13:33:08 05/09/17 (3)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - digepix 14:30:45 05/09/17 (2)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - Dynobot 15:39:18 05/09/17 (0)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - Dynobot 14:47:59 05/09/17 (0)

I went from a Scott Nixon to - G Squared 11:24:10 05/09/17 (1)

RE: I went from a Scott Nixon to - digepix 12:35:04 05/09/17 (0)

The Best Way is - E-Stat 07:52:38 05/09/17 (8)

borrow a newer or presumably "better" unit - Dynobot 13:29:00 05/09/17 (0)

+1 Exactly right - AbeCollins 08:24:45 05/09/17 (6)

RE: +1 Exactly right - Ivan303 09:16:50 05/09/17 (5)

Wow! - E-Stat 13:09:54 05/09/17 (1)

Not a lot of chip amps in the audio path... - Ivan303 16:06:21 05/09/17 (0)

RE: +1 Exactly right - ahendler 11:32:00 05/09/17 (2)

Sure is a great dac - Dynobot 13:31:20 05/09/17 (1)

Master 7 stays in the main system with USB input but... - Ivan303 16:17:47 05/09/17 (0)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - Roseval 06:20:12 05/09/17 (0)

Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac

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