Good, Cheap DACs with Balanced outputs & Optical Input

[Wes]

Anything on the Recommended list?

Here is a filter I ran, but have only opened up the reviews on a dozen yet:

 

[Vini darko]

Schiit modius jumps out. It's $200 and balanced with quality measurments.

 

[Jmudrick]

Schiit modius jumps out. It's $200 and balanced with quality measurments.

What he said. That's what I'm using, set and forget no dramas.

 

[Rick Sykora]

On the list, would do this...

Gustard X16 Balanced MQA DAC

Since I was not willing to wait for it, went with SMSL M200 (not on list), but was on sale for Black Friday for less than half of the Gustard.

 

[waynel]

Anything on the Recommended list?

Here is a filter I ran, but have only opened up the reviews on a dozen yet:


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you can screen for tested output=xlr. There are a few on that list w/o XLR. Also, Wolf tested the SMSL M300 mk II which is a good option

 

[Wes]

Thx

 

[TimW]

This is the cheapest option I know of with those features.

 

[waynel]

Thx

weird, I can't find how to filter by XLR anymore, you can click on the electronic ranking tab to rank by SINAD and it shows XLR output in a column.

 

[waynel]

This is the cheapest option I know of with those features.

this one has world class SINAD ~118dB and I bought 2 for $200 each
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...-measurement-of-smsl-m300-mkii-edition.10836/

 

[Jmudrick]

this one has world class SINAD ~118dB and I bought 2 for $200 each
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...-measurement-of-smsl-m300-mkii-edition.10836/

I would encourage a review of user experience and customer service as well as features and price.