Best Dac for a Shanling and squeezebox?

If you are using the Squeezebox and an expensive DAC, this might not be a good marriage unless you put a reclocker in-between. Most DACs dont deal with jitter very well and you probably will not get better than CD performance from it without a reclocker.

Consider a DAC that includes async USB input instead, unless you have to use wireless or have a long distance to cover. A Mac mini running headless on your rack connected to the DAC by USB cable is a nice solution. You can use iPhone, Ipod Touch or iPad to control everything.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

2bgeorge
thanks I was looking at the wyred4sound as it seems to get good reviews and has multiple inputs.

I just wonder about whether the multiple input would dilute the sound improvement.

Steve N.
thanks for that suggestion.

I am using it wirelessly.

The Shanling was reclocked as part of the upgrades but I guess the sqeezebox would need reclocking too.

Are there any Dacs that would achieve low or zero jitter.

I heard something about a Lampizator.

Have you heard of it?

I would spend $400 on the Monarchy DIP (and you need an additional digital cable) and use the monarchy as an upsampler and clock. I put one between my squeezebox and berkeley dac and it wade an incredible difference.

Musicalal
I do not think so, and it gives you flexibilty and the option of putting multiple devices into your DAC with diffferent types of cables.