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they only have analog mixers?

Well, kind of.
Another option would be a sound card with monitoring and a dac.
So you would plug one devices output to the dac, dac to the sound card's inputs. Another device with USB - to soundcard. In some cards you can mix digital (USB) and the analog (inputs) to the output.

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is there any dacs that would allow you to have multiple audio sources play at once. this is probably a stupid questions since most have a switch to change which input they output 

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You're looking for a mixer, not a dac.

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16 minutes ago, BasedChe said:

is there any dacs that would allow you to have multiple audio sources play at once. this is probably a stupid questions since most have a switch to change which input they output 

Well a dac without a amp would be really useless are you sure that you are not looking for a amp with multiple outputs and inputs...

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DACs with multiple inputs have a "switch" of what input you would like to use.
As Dackzy mentioned, you need a mixer.
Idea is that you would plug all your sources to the mixer and from the mixer you would output to speakers or headphones.
What kind of sources you would like to connect? 

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36 minutes ago, Aivaras said:

DACs with multiple inputs have a "switch" of what input you would like to use.
As Dackzy mentioned, you need a mixer.
Idea is that you would plug all your sources to the mixer and from the mixer you would output to speakers or headphones.
What kind of sources you would like to connect? 

i wanted to plug in a spdif and either a usb spdif or coax 

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OK, in that case you would need multiple DACs and an mixer. Are you sure that you two digital inputs at once? 

ill probably just get a mixer

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3 minutes ago, Aivaras said:

You can't plug digital inputs to a mixer.

they only have analog mixers?

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Just now, BasedChe said:

they only have analog mixers?

Well, kind of.
Another option would be a sound card with monitoring and a dac.
So you would plug one devices output to the dac, dac to the sound card's inputs. Another device with USB - to soundcard. In some cards you can mix digital (USB) and the analog (inputs) to the output.

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