Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100 Review

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I think CA has milked the design a bit too long. As good as it was back then, and is still reasonably respectable, for the dollars asked it's time to look elsewhere. A refurbed model might be OK if gotten cheap. I have one in a closet somewhere, replaced with the CA DacMag Plus. One thing on the latter more expensive unit: the tiny LEDs are starting to fade, making that functionality useless. I'm not sure who spec'd LEDs that wear out so quickly? To save a few pennies in production? Maybe it's just my unit, who knows?

I have the problem with fading/broken LEDs on my dacmagic 100:

Toslink is the only input connected at the moment.
I bought it secondhand in 2015 and first they worked fine until a couple months later...

 

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Also this weirdness when turning on after a while: