The CA Dacmagic Plus is currently £249 instore at Richer Sounds, meaning a saving of £100 against the RRP of £349.
Richer Sounds say: ''The purpose behind the DacMagic Plus is simple: to make your music sound better, whatever the digital source. Plug in your Blu-ray, DVD or CD player via optical or coaxial connections (there are two of each) and enjoy up-sampled music quality that's better than CD. The USB connection for your computer supports 24-bit transfer for 'better than CD quality'. So music files stored on your PC or laptop in top 24/192 quality can be streamed, uncompressed, through the DacMagic Plus and enhanced by its DAC.''
All comments (35)
windhoek
1 Sep 17#1
Click here to see the Dacmagic Plus @ Cambridge Audio
windhoek
1 Sep 17#2
windhoek
1 Sep 17#3
I'm having difficulty adding an image to the Deal headline; hopefully a mod can sort it for me :smile:
Agharta
1 Sep 17#4
I am suspicious of this type of product so anybody here tried one?
JSmooth
1 Sep 17#5
Wtf is this?
windhoek to JSmooth
1 Sep 17#6
It's a Digital to Analogue Converter. I use mine to convert digital audio from my Synology NAS (via USB) to analogue, which is then output to my amplifier. Some DACs in CD, DVD and blu ray players aren't that great and this is simply a device to make the end sound sound a bit better. For more information, please click on the link to the Cambridge Audio website above or call in to a Richer Sounds store and I'm sure the staff there will be happy to say more about it :smile:
mudds
1 Sep 17#7
Good piece of kit. Voted hot.
mcrobbj
1 Sep 17#8
Sorry don't get this what source do i use for the claimed better than cd quality. If I rip a cdhow exactly does this make it better. Sounds like snake oil to me.
windhoek to mcrobbj
1 Sep 17#9
I'm sure someone from Richer Sounds will give you a good answer if you ask them :smile:
rev6 to mcrobbj
1 Sep 17#10
A CD rip won't be better than the source. If you have access to lossless sources that didn't come from CD's, SACD for example.
soulgod123 to mcrobbj
2 Sep 17#26
if you dont know what DAC is dont waste your time posting
windhoek
1 Sep 17#11
Fwiw, I bought one earlier today and use it with my Synology DS416PLAY NAS; connected directly via USB. My NAS's media player, DS Audio Station, can process hi-res audio such as that found on blu ray audio discs, and so can the Cambridge Audio Dacmagic. I've ripped all my CD, DVD-A, SACD and blu ray audio discs so I can stream audio from my NAS to a DAC (with DSD converted to PCM on the fly) rather than having to play the discs themselves, and in my setup at least, it sounds great.
The headphone output is pretty decent, although I wouldn't suggest buying Dacmagic purely for the purpose of playback via headphones as there are better alternatives for the same kind of money, I'm sure. Like I say, it works great in my system and I'm delighted with the little black box of tricks :grin:
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Richer Sounds say: ''The purpose behind the DacMagic Plus is simple: to make your music sound better, whatever the digital source. Plug in your Blu-ray, DVD or CD player via optical or coaxial connections (there are two of each) and enjoy up-sampled music quality that's better than CD. The USB connection for your computer supports 24-bit transfer for 'better than CD quality'. So music files stored on your PC or laptop in top 24/192 quality can be streamed, uncompressed, through the DacMagic Plus and enhanced by its DAC.''
All comments (35)
If you have access to lossless sources that didn't come from CD's, SACD for example.
The headphone output is pretty decent, although I wouldn't suggest buying Dacmagic purely for the purpose of playback via headphones as there are better alternatives for the same kind of money, I'm sure. Like I say, it works great in my system and I'm delighted with the little black box of tricks :grin: