monkeysinspehs
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Hi everyone,
I did my best to read through the many threads that mention these components in some way. But I’m still failing to get a clear understanding of what folks would recommend and why.
I have the following set-up for casual listening in a small room: Elac Debut 2.0 B6.2 + SMSL SA300. I've been generally happy with streaming from my phone or computer—though I can't claim much sophistication in this domain—but ran into a snag when I decided I may want to add a CD player to my current set-up and noticed the SA300 has no digital inputs except USB (and CD players with good built in DACs are expensive and huge).
Assuming I want to add a CD player (or have other similar flexibility in the future for unforeseen reasons cause I'm a newb rn), while not losing bluetooth, are there any recommendations on what I should swap the SA300 out for? In particular, Loxjie A30 on its own vs. an Aiyima amp (A07 or A08) with a DAC (Aiyima T8 or Schiit Modi). Can anyone tell me why one is likely to be “better” than the other? Sifting the measurements that are available for some of these units, and not others, hasn’t totally clarified it for me. But I’ve seen at least one post here claiming the Aiyima stack would be superior to the A30.
I did my best to read through the many threads that mention these components in some way. But I’m still failing to get a clear understanding of what folks would recommend and why.
I have the following set-up for casual listening in a small room: Elac Debut 2.0 B6.2 + SMSL SA300. I've been generally happy with streaming from my phone or computer—though I can't claim much sophistication in this domain—but ran into a snag when I decided I may want to add a CD player to my current set-up and noticed the SA300 has no digital inputs except USB (and CD players with good built in DACs are expensive and huge).
Assuming I want to add a CD player (or have other similar flexibility in the future for unforeseen reasons cause I'm a newb rn), while not losing bluetooth, are there any recommendations on what I should swap the SA300 out for? In particular, Loxjie A30 on its own vs. an Aiyima amp (A07 or A08) with a DAC (Aiyima T8 or Schiit Modi). Can anyone tell me why one is likely to be “better” than the other? Sifting the measurements that are available for some of these units, and not others, hasn’t totally clarified it for me. But I’ve seen at least one post here claiming the Aiyima stack would be superior to the A30.