DACs
DACs (Digital to Analog Converters) convert digital music streams from sources like computers, streamers, and CD transports into analog signals that can be amplified to drive your speakers. As important to the ultimate sound quality you experience as Phono Cartridges and Turntables are to the sound of analog music.
Boutique Audio Temple offers these choices:
Yggdrasil From $2,299
Schiit likes to call Yggdrasil the “Forever DAC” because it has long been widely recognized as one of the highest performing DACs on the market – winning awards for a decade now - a all along, fully modular and upgradeable. With unparalleled musical quality, tonal purity, and wide-deep sound staging, it represents the pinnacle in DAC technology, easily competing with DACs at 5, or even 6-digit prices. Like Mimir and Gungnir, adding Forkbeard adds digital preamp and PEQ capabilities and more. We even have a 10 year old Yggy, so you can compare/contrast with the latest version. Fun fact, until the original Yggy, we had never heard ANY digital source sound as good as our Turntable/Vinyl setup. Yggy literally changed everything for a LOT of people.
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Gungnir 2 From $1,599
Gungnir may just be the ultimate value performance leader amongst DACs today. True Multibit with added sophistication in the analog output stage delivers uncanny lifelikeness to the real event. In our perspective the undeniable DAC to beat under $2000. Like Mimir, if configured with Forkbeard, it offers full digital pre-amp capabilities, with 5 band PEQ, loudness and more.
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Bifrost From $799
Bifrost is a high-value, high-capability, mid-priced DAC that offers fully-balanced topology and Schiit’s unique True Multibit™ architecture to take imaging and sound staging to the next level up.
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Modi 5 $149
In our experience, by far, the most flexible, best-sounding, under $200 DAC we’ve heard, and it’s small enough to fit easily on your desk.
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Mimir From $299
Mimir revolutionizes the low price DAC market with amazing sonic quality and features for the price. Add Forkbeard, and gain complete digital pre-amp with 3 band parametric EQ and loudness capabilities; making Mimir the highest-value DAC available.
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