This is a review and detailed measurements of the Rega DAC-R stereo DAC. It is on kind loan from a member and costs US $1,195 when it came out in 2015.
I suspect extra money had gone into making the top curved down but it doesn't do anything for me. Fortunately the user interface makes up for the plain looks in how easy it is to select inputs and filters.
Back panel shows rather rich set of inputs and outputs for a DAC:
Sadly, no balanced analog output is provided. I did not get a remote with it so wonder if one had come with it.
Rega DAC-R Measurements
As usual we start with our dashboard:
I saw some mains noise but no matter what I did, I could not impact it even a bit. I suspect that is coming out of the power supply and...