DAC help

[GrahamConnell]

Hi guys,

 

So I've been getting more and more into audio these days and I few month ago I picked up a pair of AKG k240's and been really pleased with the sound quality improvements over my previous headphones. I mostly listen to music from spotify on high quality and I'm wondering if investing into a DAC would be a good investment at this time. I'm mostly looking for someone's opinion on if it would be worth a roughly 100$ investment or if the experience wouldn't change all that much given the quality of my cans and the source audio (i think they just use high-ish bit rate mp3, although I could be wrong on that one). Also, if you could let me know if investing in an amp would make improvements as well (given that the k240's are only 55 ohms of impedance).

 

Thank you for any help,

 

Graham

[Pomfinator]

No.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, GrahamConnell said:

So I've been getting more and more into audio these days and I few month ago I picked up a pair of AKG k240's and been really pleased with the sound quality improvements

 

And for that reason, negative.

[TheAudiophile]

I dunno why most people are against investing in a DAC, I've only had positive experiences when upgrading my DAC setup.

 

The best sound for the money that I've found is buying a Chinese CS4398 DAC kit on ebay for $35, building it, building an appropriate power supply and then enjoying the hell out of it on both my headphones as well as my main system. Try it.

[spwath]

7 hours ago, TheAudiophile said:

I dunno why most people are against investing in a DAC, I've only had positive experiences when upgrading my DAC setup.

 

The best sound for the money that I've found is buying a Chinese CS4398 DAC kit on ebay for $35, building it, building an appropriate power supply and then enjoying the hell out of it on both my headphones as well as my main system. Try it.

Because they have found little to no difference from a dedicated dac and onboard sounds.

[GrahamConnell]

so I'm hearing waste of money for the most part. So probably just save the money until I can afford some damn good headphones and higher quality audio, then it might be something to consider?

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, GrahamConnell said:

so I'm hearing waste of money for the most part. So probably just save the money until I can afford some damn good headphones and higher quality audio, then it might be something to consider?

Nope 

[Unhelpful]

6 hours ago, spwath said:

Because they have found little to no difference from a dedicated dac and onboard sounds.

Well that depends on whether or not your onboard sound it shit. But yeah.

[spwath]

41 minutes ago, JoeyDM said:

Well that depends on whether or not your onboard sound it shit. But yeah.

Most modern are not.

[Unhelpful]

11 minutes ago, spwath said:

Most modern are not.

I am aware of this.

[Guest]

20 hours ago, TheAudiophile said:

I dunno why most people are against investing in a DAC, I've only had positive experiences when upgrading my DAC setup.

 

The best sound for the money that I've found is buying a Chinese CS4398 DAC kit on ebay for $35, building it, building an appropriate power supply and then enjoying the hell out of it on both my headphones as well as my main system. Try it.

 

No thanks. How do you even "enjoy the hell" out of something that sounds identical to onboard?

[Desbreko]

Linus talk about this the between sound cards and dacs and it made buy dac because it would eliminate any kind internal sound because you no longer use a sound card anymore. Watch the video here.

 

 

 

[Dackzy]

2 hours ago, Desbreko said:

Linus talk about this the between sound cards and dacs and it made buy dac because it would eliminate any kind internal sound because you no longer use a sound card anymore. Watch the video here.

 

 

 

but if you don't have noise you waste money and guess what linus os not always right. Go read my post about this.