I am thrilled to rid myself of loading/changing CDs in order to get quality sound. With the addition of the DACMagic, I have officially forsaken multi channel for music (unless its formatted that way for DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-ray concert material).įor those wanting to use an outboard DAC to improve sonics of their transport and digital music (as opposed to CD, SACD, etc) I highly recommend the DACMagic. I'll try that later, but I'd doubt i'll hear any difference with the short runs less than 6ft.īest $400 dollar upgrade i've ever experienced. Maybe the complete balanced (from DAC to Pre/Pro) signal will improve this further, but that will have to wait for the XMC (new EMO processor out sometime next year)! I still haven't tried the coax vs optical (that i'm using) from transport to DAC. My 73" DLP acts as a big reflection point, which results in a collapsed sound stage unless I move the speakers away from boundary points (back and side walls included). I recognize some of this is caused by my room/setup and I was able to improve this some by moving my LR speakers further out into the room (just another 8 inches or so). Only letdown is/was I didn't get a significant widening of my soundstage. Now I really need to try the XPA-2 or even XPA-1s! This upgrade made a bigger impact than separate amps (moving to XPA-5 power from using the DMR-1 onboard amps). The difference in 2 channel audio when switching from Onk (hated the rolled off highs when using Audyssey.and hated the shrill upper end with Aud dissengaged) to EMO separates (DMR and XPA-5) was a Huge improvement.and I was concerned that I wouldn't notice an appreciable improvement with an outboard DAC.these concerns were erased with the DACMagic in the first few hours Very nice upgrade (and I always thought the DACs in my DMR-1 sounded quite good after switching from Onkyo 805 as Pre/Pro). And no.i don't hear an appreciable difference nor advocate designer cables and other various snake oil!!! This is my first experience using an outboard DAC and I'm quite impressed. The Fountek ribbons are what really benefit most from the DACMagic. That's probably why I don't notice as big of improvements in the mids and bass (other than separation) with the outboard DACS. My mains (Sealed Statements) inherrently have great midrange due to their design and components (open back TB W4s) and the bass from dual/sealed RS 225s is tight/spot on for musical bass. I think the micro/macro details of upper frequencies get the biggest improvement. YYZ never sounded so good! Snare and toms have more snap, high hat is more crisp, crash cymbals and chimes have more air and realistic decay. The DACMagic really shines on intricate percussion. Soundstage is ever so slightly wider, considerably deeper and it provides better detail, 3d imaging. With DACMagic, separation of instruments is clearly improved. I'll have to do some more critical listening 2.1 vs 2.0 before I decide which will get more playtime. I left my main L/R speakers set to "LARGE". 1 of DMRs analog section and voila.more bottom (not that my mains are lacking, but they do start to roll off around 50hZ). As much as I loved the pure 2 channel, the bass-head in me needed to hear some 2.1 so I added one of the unbalanced outs from the DAC concurrently with the balanced outs to the. Didn't notice how the time flew (no listener fatigue!!!). My wife's 128 mp3s still sound lousy, but more tollerable, anyway. I also was pleasantly suprised to find that compressed modern pop is improved as well.wonder if that's the upsampling? I don't care, but I like. Well recorded lossless is more glorious than ever (equal or better than from Direct CD w/o DACMagic). I listened to it like this for about 6 hrs with various music from my library. Balanced to unbalanced cables purchased from Monoprice. I set it up with balanced out from DAC to L/R unbalanced in on processor's (EMO DMR-1) analog in (bypass). Originally Posted by johnnysamoa /img/forum/go_quote.gif I am still working trying the other suggestions to try to get the laptop working with DacMagic. MP3 that has played via DacMagic, when 44.1 detectedīTW when the Vista desktop machine is connected to DacMagic the 44.1 light illuminates and the tracks play from Winamp with no ASIO4ALL installed. stats from tracks that have played, from my laptop, when 44.1 detected by DacMagic these tracks are also playing when I connect the DacMagic to my Vista desktop machine:. Why do you not think I am not outputting PCM. I still think you may not be outputting PCM audio. Originally Posted by kydsid /img/forum/go_quote.gif
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