rontoolsie
pfm Member
So I have had the TeddyDAC VC for several months now....it is taking input from both the Squeezebox Touch (via some very foo Audio Magic Illusion coax RCA) and the TV (similar audiophily Audioquest Voodoo optical). I compared both of those with the equivalent Amazon Basic cable. The coax RCAs were broadly quite similar but the Audio Magic had a soupcon of better playback, while the Audioquest Voodoo was a chasm over the Basic equivalent....even voices in documentaries were rendered much more intelligle and with less boom and unpleasant chestiness that the Basik cable offered.
As 95% of my ripped music is 16/44 I was in no great rush to try out the optional 24/192 USB input that the TeddyDAC was fitted with-until yesterday that is.
This required a very simple 3rd party applet on the SBT that configured the USB INPUT to a digital OUTPUT. The only USB cable I had on hand was an ancient one what I had been using with a Canon Scanner. I was expecting zero difference due the the redbook standard of my music library...and besides I stream internet radio as much as anything else-and that is already a 'low-res' source.
But literally from the first note, there was something very, very different with the USB input. As I am typing here, the music is playing in the adjoining room, and I and easily hear the extra thud and grip that has been injected into the lower end, and the clarity, transparency and textures are also much improved. This was about as bit as a jump as going from the analog outputs of the SBT to the TeddyDAC using the coax input. Maybe bigger.
I know I am not imagining it, as I listened about ten hours yesterday and enjoyed every moment. I can't remember the last time I had a marathon listening session.
Even streamed radio sounds very good, and indeed better than hires files did on the coax input.
I'm selling the foo coax cable and trying out a decent USB one.
Owners of the TeddyDAC should serious consider this $149 option as the rewards are far higher than the modest extra cost would suggest. Anybody else with similar experiences??
As 95% of my ripped music is 16/44 I was in no great rush to try out the optional 24/192 USB input that the TeddyDAC was fitted with-until yesterday that is.
This required a very simple 3rd party applet on the SBT that configured the USB INPUT to a digital OUTPUT. The only USB cable I had on hand was an ancient one what I had been using with a Canon Scanner. I was expecting zero difference due the the redbook standard of my music library...and besides I stream internet radio as much as anything else-and that is already a 'low-res' source.
But literally from the first note, there was something very, very different with the USB input. As I am typing here, the music is playing in the adjoining room, and I and easily hear the extra thud and grip that has been injected into the lower end, and the clarity, transparency and textures are also much improved. This was about as bit as a jump as going from the analog outputs of the SBT to the TeddyDAC using the coax input. Maybe bigger.
I know I am not imagining it, as I listened about ten hours yesterday and enjoyed every moment. I can't remember the last time I had a marathon listening session.
Even streamed radio sounds very good, and indeed better than hires files did on the coax input.
I'm selling the foo coax cable and trying out a decent USB one.
Owners of the TeddyDAC should serious consider this $149 option as the rewards are far higher than the modest extra cost would suggest. Anybody else with similar experiences??
