Yeah I had a design that was basically a shrunken massdrop version that was floating out there.
I didn’t get a chance to print it out as I had to move my printer and I had no interest in leveling it again and getting print ready.
There’s no official thread for a lot of these DACs. I think I only see the Topping D10.
Should have one for the SMSL M100 too, at least, because Zeos really liked it:
And the Khadas Tone Board:
Done
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Also not mentioned here I think, the Behringer UCA202 is… 100dB+ SNR for like 30$?!
(Not the UCA222 though, the UCA222 is worse than motherboard sound for whatever reason.)
I’ve heard it and it’s pretty decent. I don’t think it really its as good of the topping d10, but it is pretty good
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Literally forgot I had one… plugging it into my Atom right now. 
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You know you’re an audiophile when…
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Man this thing sounds clean. I was about to maybe buy a SMSL M100 but… Would it even sound better in a blind test?
The UCA202 only does 48khz though.
Honestly I would just hold off and wait tbh. I think a proper upgrade might be a su8 or d50s if you wanted a significant upgrade
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Well, fuck me. TIL the cleanest DAC I had for years was a 30$ DAC I had left in my box of things to sell. Lol.
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Loo, well now you know lol. Is it cleaner than what you were using up until you remembered that you had it?
Everything is cleaner than double-amping an AVR. 
(I bought the Atom for my studio, not for here. – The recording interface will be its home.)
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What about the Xduoo XD-05?
Probably not as clean as D50S / SU-8?
The xd-05 is good, but I mean that’s more of a portable combo and not really dac focused, but it does preform well as a dac through it’s line out. I do think that an ifi idsd nano bl would be good to use as a dac if you wanted something a bit warmer and smooth
I would use the XD-05 as a DAC, it looks so much like a desktop DAC lol.
As a bonus it’s still a 500mW yeet cannon so I could just walk around with my T50RPs 
(And people would call the bomb squad)
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I mean it would do a good job for that, but if you really don’t plan to take it off of the desk I don’t know if I would say it was worthwhile, because at that point I think the topping d10 might outperform or equal it
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People already think I have speakers on me when I hook up my K550 up to my Little Bear B4 and lay them flat XD
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i was going to try this thing out just for the hell of it for $13
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If you can find a used Behringer UCA-202, that’s the best. 100dB+ SINAD for like 30$, praised by NwAvGuy a looong time ago.