On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:39:06 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

It's not the chip (DAC), it's the speakers.

yep, or in this case, headphones.

except there are those who think that they can hear a difference
between different dacs, different cables, etc. some of the audiophile
stuff is beyond crazy.

In my search I found DACs ranging in price fro about $5(!) to $26,000.
I finished up paying about $500.

I already had a DAC in my Roland Duo Capture EX which I bought for use
as an ADC for transcribing vinyl discs. Its DAC was acceptable but in
the end I finished up buying an Arcam irDAC-II which is a middle of
the road DAC. It made an audibly better job of converting digital to
analog than did the Roland. Mind you, I was listening through good
gear.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens