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DAC shootout!
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Five DACs enter. Only one DAC shall be named champion.

In a surprise twist the built-in Delta-Sigma DAC of the WiiM Ultra has already received praise

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We're honestly not sharing thoughts until the end. Volume is level matched for all 5, which was a pain in the ass
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Order is randomized.
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And by unanimous decision there was no unanimous decision. The shocking result is that a $10,000 DAC was not the winner
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A very clear conclusion is that it is absolutely necessary to level match when doing any testing of audio equipment. A DAC that had been low on the list suddenly moved way up when a problem with level matching was corrected.
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If we used ranked choice voting then the winner, if you could even call it that, was probably a Border Patrol DAC that's no longer in production.
Mar 18 at 10:31pmWeb