DAC or XPS

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Originally posted by Ultramanzero:
Current user of HDX, if only could affort either one to improve sound quality, despite the cost difference which one should be picked?
Thanks!

£2000 dac you can benefit every digital component in your system

£3000 psu that will improve one component.

the dac is a wide bandwidth unit, i never heard the human voice reproduced any better, low frequencies too.

it is possible that the cheaper psu may be available in the future, guess you need to compare side by side good luck allan

Hi,
i would def. go for DAC!!!
I had HDX + PSU; now i'm running NAIM DAC with Linn.

Sound improves better with a sep. DAC unit.
Ralf

DAC first then PS.

Get the DAC and the DC 1 digital interconnect (BNC to BNC) and rediscover your music collection!

DAC first. The HDX/DAC combo is quite formidable.

Thanks for all inputs, it seems the answer is pretty straight forward.
As I found the build in power supply in HDX is relatively weak, size of the transformer is very small even compare with the one in CD5X. That's why I suspect the XPS will improve the performance a lot in this circumstances, may be even better than a seperate DAC.

quote:

Originally posted by Ultramanzero:
Thanks for all inputs, it seems the answer is pretty straight forward.
As I found the build in power supply in HDX is relatively weak, size of the transformer is very small even compare with the one in CD5X. That's why I suspect the XPS will improve the performance a lot in this circumstances, may be even better than a seperate DAC.

The PS is the HDX is 2 fold. One switching supply which are quite small for their capacity and needed a bit of massaging to work as well as they wanted. This still only powers the digital control sections as there's only so much to do with them. In kind, the linear supply which you noticed, only powers the DAC and analog out sections and is the equivalent of their other inboards relative to load.