USB DACs

Schiit Bitfrost $449.00

Inputs: Coaxial SPDIF, Optical SPDIF, USB (optional)
Input Capability: up to 24/192 for all inputs
Input Receiver, SPDIF: Crystal Semiconductor CS8416
Input Receiver, USB: C-Media CM6631. Drivers for Windows 8, 7, Vista, and XP

 

D/A Conversion IC: AKM4399, no upsampling
Analog Summing, Filtering: Fully Discrete, JFET differential topology

 

Output: RCA (single-ended)
Output Impedance: 75 ohms

 

What is in a name? Measurements on

S.M.S.L M500 US$ 399.99 / € 399,00

 

Pre-amp with digital inputs over USB and SPDIF ( coax and Toslink)

Headphone out

Line out over XLR and RCA

Selectable filters

 

DAC: ES9038PRO

Voltage regulator: ES9311

USB: XMOS XU-216

32bit 768kHz PCM / DSD 512

Added 2019

Soekris engineering dac1101 € 590

 

One of the few R-2R DACs.

USB Input Type B, Isolated, Full/High Speed
USB Input Mode Selectable Audio Class 1.0 or Audio Class 2.0
USB Input PCM Up to 24 Bit / 384 Ksps
USB Input DSD Up to DoP-128 and DSD-256

 

 

Added 2017