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Bargain DAC Suggestions?
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The Schiit package is their signed version of the Cmedia installer. I had to use it to get my Emotiva DC-1 working because I certainly wasn't going through the process of disabling driver signing. It should say CMedia when you run their installer.
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That's the one that doesn't work. I have run it with and without driver signing, with and without device being plugged in first and it keeps giving me that error.
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When I worked at Microsoft about a year before the release we all had to run the next version. It was a pain with instability and performance problems. Now that I have left, I wait until they are released
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When I worked at Microsoft about a year before the release we all had to run the next version. It was a pain with instability and performance problems. Now that I have left, I wait until they are released
Luckily the IT companies I've worked with focused on Mainframe & Midrange OS's. Latest info is that Windows 10 Creators Update (1703) is to be released April 11.
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When I worked at Microsoft about a year before the release we all had to run the next version. It was a pain with instability and performance problems. Now that I have left, I wait until they are released
I just use a machine with SSD and hammer it flat with the 90 day Eval version so I have a fresh install when playing with this stuff.
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I do the same thing:
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I do the same thing:
A rubber hammer is much too gentle for a Windows machine. One should always use steel for the full desired effect.
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I hear you. Google failed me in finding a proper hammer picture!
Google failed me in finding a proper hammer picture!
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You could have used this one. And BTW, shouldn't you be using Bing?
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Good news! Pulled out the big guns, I mean, my son , and he managed to get all the driver issues sorted out. I have done a preliminary pass. Will finalize the results in the next couple of days and post them.
, and he managed to get all the driver issues sorted out. I have done a preliminary pass. Will finalize the results in the next couple of days and post them.
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Can't wait!
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Don't know what it costs everywhere, here it's a bit outside the range... but in any case... Chord Mojo would be my suggestion no matter if applying "budget" to it or not...
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Why?
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Because it's about as good a DAC as can be obtained. Test performance is quite spectacular. Quite possibly it would be impossible to hear a difference to a Chord Dave (which has even more 'ridiculous' test performance) in a normal use case (which costs 20x more and quite possibly turns most people off by the aesthetics).
I like my mojo (dubious statements from mr watts aside)
watchnerd
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The tests of the ODAC are also quite good, with noise, distortion, and jitter below the usual thresholds of audibility.
It has similar input and output connections to the Chord.
But it costs 1/3 the price of the Chord.
Or, going the other direction, the TEAC UD-301 (for slightly less money than the Chord) adds features the Chord doesn't have: balanced output.
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Man it is ugly looking:
How is the driver install? And resale market after I am done testing it?
Yes. There are any number of DAC's in that price range that should be completely transparent and measure very well but that wasn't supposed to be the focus of this test. I thought the idea was mainly to "measure" what could be accomplished for around a $100 or less? Amir already has hi end DAC's to measure for comparison.
Listening tests are subjective and there are many that do that BS very well.
Stereophile's Recommended considers a $2k Benchmark a bargain.
watchnerd
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Yes. There are any number of DAC's in that price range that should be completely transparent and measure very well but that wasn't supposed to be the focus of this test. I thought the idea was mainly to "measure" what could be accomplished for around a $100 or less? Amir already has hi end DAC's to measure for comparison.
Listening tests are subjective and there are many that do that BS very well.
Stereophile's Recommended considers a $2k Benchmark a bargain.
It seems like @amirm has raised the price boundary a bit to a few hundred bucks, unless I'm misunderstanding earlier thread posts.
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