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Can anyone reccomend a good dap for around $60 ?
Does anybody know of any decent wireless earbuds? Been out of the loop a while.
Preferably independent, i.e. no cable between them
AirPods ™
@FLAK44#0182 Try and find a used Shanling M1
If not, a used Fiio X1
Benjie T6 maybe
any dac's under 30$ that isnt the zishan z1 and pcm2703?
love the zishan z1 but the delay is really annoying
oh youre using the Z1 as a dac
why not a pcm chip tho?'
some of the higher end burr browns have really nice specs
the pcm has this noise at all times
maybe i just got chinked 🤔
that's just a shit implimentation
if you don't mind not having a housing, i got a SA9023 + ES9023 DAC for like $19 AUD which works nice
and has a pretty damn low noise floor
slap it in an altoids tin if you care about a housing
otherwise there are a few cheap dongle dacs
but sabre chips seem to be pretty easy to impliment other than the whole glare issue
but you probably wont hear that unless you have a lot to compare with
do i find the SA9023 + ES9023 on ali?
dunno if its on there, i got it on ebay
lemme look 1 sec
price went up a bit
but i still like it
also has I2S if you ever have USB issues
that looks quite nice
is pretty decent
i dont get hiss even with sensitive IEMs
pair it with a CMOY/RA1 and youve got a pretty damn good portable amp/dac
if you want something smaller, i have one of those "MUSES" PCM2704 DACs that was kind of okay other than the stupidly oversized housing
smaller wouldnt be necessary, but where do i find thid cmoy/ra1 amp and how would i go about installing it?
cmoy is an open source extremely simple opamp based portable amp
and a grado ra1 is essentially the same with a diff gain strucutre
youll only need one if youre using headphones with a lower sensitivity though, or if you really just want a volume knob
tho that one doesnt have any protection circuitry so youll want to unplug stuff before turning on/off