Draghmar
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Hi.
My 40h birthday are coming so I decide to buy myself something I always wanted: planar headphones (decided on Dekoni Blue by Fosex) and external soundcard for my PC. Because I'm noob in terms of DACs and Amps I started my search with asking Web for the best external soundcard for PC. This lead me to Shiit and their Hel 2. Looked great on paper. Then I've noticed that they have both DAC and Amp as a separate devices: Modi 3+ and Magni Heresy which looks even better on paper. This (unfortunately) made me wonder which one I should choose.
Currently I have Xonar DX but I know it doesn't have enough power to drive those planars. Also I do want external solution for the sake of having it. I'm not sure what will I loose because of Dolby support though...But I hope nothing important.
Looking at a way to give the edge for one of the Shiit devices I found this forum, with those highly analytical reviews. And with that I discovered that there are also devices in similar price range: JDS Labs Atom Headphone Amp and DAC.
My noobish eye said that JDS looks better...but the difference doesn't look as big as I'd like to (to make it easy to choose that is ).
So now my list of potential devices grew to:
- Shiit Hel 2 DAC/Amp.
- Shiit Magni Heresy Amp
- Shiit Modi 3+ DAC
- JDS Labs Atom Amp
- JDS Labs Atom DAC
And the clock is ticking...That's why I decided to ask you, people that far more experienced with all of this. Please give me the edge to hang from...
My 40h birthday are coming so I decide to buy myself something I always wanted: planar headphones (decided on Dekoni Blue by Fosex) and external soundcard for my PC. Because I'm noob in terms of DACs and Amps I started my search with asking Web for the best external soundcard for PC. This lead me to Shiit and their Hel 2. Looked great on paper. Then I've noticed that they have both DAC and Amp as a separate devices: Modi 3+ and Magni Heresy which looks even better on paper. This (unfortunately) made me wonder which one I should choose.
Currently I have Xonar DX but I know it doesn't have enough power to drive those planars. Also I do want external solution for the sake of having it. I'm not sure what will I loose because of Dolby support though...But I hope nothing important.
Looking at a way to give the edge for one of the Shiit devices I found this forum, with those highly analytical reviews. And with that I discovered that there are also devices in similar price range: JDS Labs Atom Headphone Amp and DAC.
My noobish eye said that JDS looks better...but the difference doesn't look as big as I'd like to (to make it easy to choose that is ).
So now my list of potential devices grew to:
- Shiit Hel 2 DAC/Amp.
- Shiit Magni Heresy Amp
- Shiit Modi 3+ DAC
- JDS Labs Atom Amp
- JDS Labs Atom DAC
And the clock is ticking...That's why I decided to ask you, people that far more experienced with all of this. Please give me the edge to hang from...