Looking for the Best ±100$ USB DAC/AMP for 250 ohm headphones and line/pre-out for Stereo AMP.
Have an old SMSL 793 ii but it is missing the USB input.
In:
USB (required)
SPDIF/Toslink (if possible)
Out:
Headphone 3.5mm or 6.3mm
Line-out or Pre-out
Went through a lot of Z Reviews and written down these DAC/AMPS.
Any that I missed?
$100±
Fiio K3
Schiit Fulla 3
Topping MX3
$200+ (A bit too expensive but is it worth the extra $$$?)
Schiit Modi 3 & Magni 3+
Schiit Hel
Topping DX3 Pro
How much can you get a fiio k5 pro for? I wouldn’t recommend buying the k3, fulla, or mx3 imo, and would suggest you save some money for something like the fiio k5 pro. The ifi Zen dac is also a decent choice, but it won’t have as much oomph driving the Beyer’s as the k5 pro does
Hmm that’s not bad, I would just suggest saving up a bit more, and getting a higher quality product imo. The k3 is pretty underpowered and unremarkable in sound, the fulla is peaky, compressed sounding, and unrefined imo, and the mx3 is more a speaker amp and the headphone amp is an afterthought. It’s just hard to recommend a dac/amp setup under 100 USD because many of them are only small improvements over using a PC out
@M0N or do like i’ll be doing. Getting a schiit heresy, and then down the line will be getting a DAC. Recommended by the man M0N himself. Lol is M0N even a man? haha
I was thinking about recommending this, but I paused because @dResign said he wanted usb in, so I assumed he didn’t have a line out or his out on a pc or phone was incredibly noisy, but if he was able to do so, that would be my pick, you would get a really high quality amp for the price and add a topping d10 or smsl m100 down the line
So personally out of what you listed I would actually pick the magni heresy/3+ and a dac, but not the modi, something like the smsl m100 or topping d10
I would actually say no, because at that price you can get the magni heresy/3+ and a dac which imo edges it out