What would be a good portable Dac/Amp to use with my HD6xx and Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone?
I am new to this hobby. I purchased a HD6XX and plan to use it with my Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone, that has a 3.5mm jack. I was wondering if I needed a portable dac/amp or just a portable amp and if so what would one recommend? Any assistance one could provide, would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Haz
Mar 7, 2024
all my cd that I bought are from last 5 years.
must say I don't have an expensive speakers each speaker cost me at least 1000$ (probably cost in usa 500$)
The funny one; was when someone told the music industry, who were then pumping out CD's in a flood $$$, that we could put a weeks worth of music using this new capability, on a single four layer disc. So that an average customer could fit all their stuff on one disc... compressed crap yes, but this put the brakes on this high density disc technology, sell just one disc!!!, they shit their pants, was not in that meeting, but heard about it... the shit that we did end up getting, the germ of the idea was in their pants now... was exactly that,,, MP3 itself...
Some SACD's were made with 5.1 and no dedicated two channel stereo; the rules were amended to require stereo later. I do wonder at the compression required to squeeze it all in one layer...
No stereo example: http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/2744
So both of us can be correct, you more so;) better?; I was just trying to warn as these things cost so much.
Regardless, look for this in a Multi-ch:
LOL - not worried about being correct, just want to help and have the right information out there. I've been buying & listening to SACD's (and DVD-Audio) since they first came out in '99 and currently have 250+ titles in high resolution. Not having a dedicated stereo mix is MUCH more of an issue/challenge with DVD-Audio.
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/any-dvd-audio-discs-without-a-dedicated-stereo-mix.129151/
Shouldn't have stepped into SACD tech mish-mash, a format that I passed on owning, was never happy with CD and saw the faults still remaining in SACD/DVD-A production quality. I would, as I said, buy a nice, used SACD player, if I were to continue investing in physical (digital) media.
I really only got the bug, to get back into this, when I found out that I could buy digital "studio files"; thus having no in-between media.
Factoid: They were not planning on printing full face labels on the discs themselves, that only came about to hide the pinholes in the coating, due to the poor cleanliness level that the old vinyl squishing factories could maintain. The learning curve was horrendous for them (and us;).
Question: the 20 stereo recordings that are alone on the SACD layer, are they larger files than the identical tracks on an identical recording mixed disc?
If you receiver can handle high resolution PCM conversions or native MLP PCM (dvd-audio) or DSD (SACD) the Sony X800 is a universal player for a decent price, it will not output analog 5.1 channel audio however...