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What is "expensive"? NTL, I suggest four options.

Posted by John Marks (M) on February 22, 2017 at 07:05:37

In Reply to: FInd me a DAC for the Masterlink. posted by Harmonia on February 21, 2017 at 18:52:11:

Grace Design sells their m920 DAC/LS/HPA at $1895. Link attached. At the moment, they have no factory refurbished ones to sell. (Note, I have been paid to give advice to Grace Design on exhibiting at RMAF and picking out demo tracks.)

http://gracedesign.com/products/m920/m920.htm

If you can be patient, the affordable ($499) m9XX that Grace Design makes for Massdrop should come up for a new offering sometime soon--at this writing, 212 people have expressed interest. (Link below.)

If you cannot be patient, Parasound's Zdac v.2 at $549 is a good choice.

http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PAZDACV2

If $549 is too much, you can roll the dice on an Enlightened Audio Designs DAC on eBay, but, at this date, most of them will have some known-to-fail parts that have fallen out of spec, and a rebuild that replaces all diodes, all capacitors, and some resistors will end up costing you total as much as the Grace m920, which I call "the poor person's Bricasti" in that it has a Minimum Phase PCM filter (as well as multiple DSD filters).

Best of luck

the once and future JM

• Massdrop x Grace Design m9XX DAC/Amp   (Open in New Window)

Edits: 02/22/17

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