That's what I thought too.

Thanks for the tip.

If can open, see what are the components and check if no fake caps/transistors, etc. Especially the power section.
I've got a china clone DIY Naim NAP200 power amp, Now letting it turn on for 1 week no turn off. So far running well. Sounds quite ok too, but I've never compared to a real NAP200 so I have no idea the performance.

But I thought you said difference between an external USB DAC and your integrated audio codec is 11am and 12 noon.

This post has been edited by penmarker: Feb 22 2017, 09:51 AM

Still got slight difference mah.... noon is slightly hotter and brighter.

penmarker, do you think I should buy the X-HDA1?

Does the internal components look legit?

I have no idea.




This post has been edited by raynman: Feb 22 2017, 10:01 AM

Better not take risk, imagine you bought a China product, what next

My advice also is, check the feedback rating is it 100%? Even ebay I try to shop only when 100% good feeback

This post has been edited by wim1983: Feb 22 2017, 10:07 AM

High noon is hotter and can have ice cream.
They're SMD components, very small so hard to determine if legit. The Cirrus Logic CS4398 DAC chip is one of their flagship chips, but implementation circuit is also a determining factor for sound quality. Its the same chip inside Astell&Kern AK100.
It says there in the listing it doesn't support DSD out from COAX, so only line out or headphone out.

I'm not worried about any component blowing smoke or etc at all its only a 5V device, just concerned about whether it will be good for $75.
If got extra money then can try buy. I won't mind buying if like around RM150 or so just to test.

Look good with the price. But dont know if they implemented it well. Also if they use good quality components. For for that price, it is good.

No problem. The only limitation is it cannot support DSD256 and above.

Why not try nu prime DSD dac

Thanks for your feedback.

I will KIV this DAC as a potential buy.

I am in no rush. Still scouting for other good buys as well.

Meanwhile, I am enjoying the 11am performance.

I'd trust the nuprime too.

My setup only 9am i think but still enjoyable too.
Just contact me if you still want to use an external DAC since I got that extra Aune T1. But no digital out though, only RCA and headphone.

Thanks for the offer man, but I would need an SPDIF digital out to test out my Yamaha DAC.

Your motherboard sound so advance, even had amp for headphone but no spdif/coaxial?

Nope, HP didn't provide an SPDIF out for the motherboard, although the IDT 92HD65C audio codec supports it.

I have installed the SACD plugin and removed the DSDIFF decoder.

File format indicator DSD128 now correctly appears during playback of a DFF file.

Good to hear. Enjoy the music. External dac does make a lot of different. Of course provided the external dac is good enough

Will it be a night and day difference?

Simple answer is yes but it also depend on your speaker, amp, cabling. Just adding a dac and hope for 100% is not possible. I personally used before few different dac. It does make the different. The current dac I used is totally night and day different with all my previous dac

Could be big different with good DAC like DragonFly Red or Cord Mojo or Audiolab M-DAC+ or Gustard X20pro or SMSL M9 etc


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Some DACs just like headphones, added with lot of ajinomoto.