![]() When I demoed it instore, we used coax from an Audiolab CDQ(?) CD player and it displayed Track # and time over coax, which I thought was cool. Will that work from an iPad? Over coax/toslink or it a USB only thing. it would take another 600 to get the remote and I found its LEDS annoyingly bright).įinal question. However, the remote, screen and build of the M-DAC were all pluses (granted the Benchmark was built just as well but lacked the bells and whistles. All were in the same ballpark pricewise, and sonically they were all very similar, if I had to pick a favorite sonically it would be the Benchmark I think. /rebates/&252fbest-bitperfect-settings-for-odac. I auditioned the Benchmark DAC1 (not USB or HDR), CA DacMagic Plus and the M-DAC. In regards to the input, should i use coax or Toslink input into the MDAC? Which input # has the adjustable clock? Not that Ive had a problem with dropouts or the like, other than the wordlength the ipad/dock combo is pretty stable. could the MDAC be reporting the wordlength incorrectly? Anyone with a Pure i20 and MDAC combo report their results?Īs for my setup, would there be any appreciable benefit to moving from unbalanced to balanced connectors between the MDAC and the amp? the RMS on the balanced outs at 4.5V seems high. I hadn't heard anything on the Teac but I liked the look of it. In doing research I have seen that the CA id100 had that same limitation but people using the Pure i20 have supposedly gotten 24/48 out of their dock. not sure how it dithers but I didn't hear any ill effects. More worrisome, the word length is only 16bit on 24bit files. Sadly if the MDAC is to be believed (and I don't know why it wouldn't be) the dock will only out 16/44 or 48. However, I do prefer the sound from J Rivers / WASAPI than iTunes on a PC, however, using Society of Sound 24/48 files converted from FLAC to ALAC using dbpoweramp the sound is still very good via iTunes. ![]() With the CCK and USB the iPad will output up to 24/96. Despite this, like francolargo, I am getting an excellent sound from the settings I described above. Prior to this I went with CCK to an ODAC to the Bryston which sounded quite good, but the lack of charging when using the CCK is annoying. On the iPad I am using iPeng and streaming from my WHS PC running LMS. ![]() IPad 3 -> Teac ds-h01 coax to MDAC unbalanced to Bryston 3B-ST -> B&W 683's It came loaded with the 0.99/0.97 FW (not sure why it shows both versions but that is what is displayed) -> Is there any benefit to upgrading to the A.x firmwares, and are they even official? iTunes and bitperfect on windows Audiophile Reply 4 11:10:55. Just bought a silver MDAC as I needed a preamp to use with the TEAC ds-h01 as it disables volume control on the ipad when used. ![]()
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