My3Ears
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I recently upgraded from a Mcintosh Mx150 to a Mcintosh Mx170 processor- Figured it was also about time to upgrade my 10 year old Auralic Aries and an external Mcintosh D100 DAC - While out gear shopping it was suggested that with the Mx170 I could skip replacing the external DAC and simply go with a network player - The folks at Mcintosh confirmed the MX170's internal DAC had "clocking" and "jitter control" and "no nonsense hand shakes" and more stuff I didn't understand but suffice to say it started me thinking - Do I really need to pay for an external preamp and a DAC or would something that simply fed the data to my Mx170 be as good ....that would save me a lot of $$$ to buy some high res files
Primarily I listen to a Synology NAS with over a TB of Lossless files .... also listen to a little internet radio occasionally - No interest in Qbuz or Amazon Music etc
Starting all over from scratch is a bit frustrating - The question I'm hoping I can gt some help with is what would the advantage be of an external DAC ...Thanks
Primarily I listen to a Synology NAS with over a TB of Lossless files .... also listen to a little internet radio occasionally - No interest in Qbuz or Amazon Music etc
Starting all over from scratch is a bit frustrating - The question I'm hoping I can gt some help with is what would the advantage be of an external DAC ...Thanks