Am personally using a shiit magni modi stack on endeavour os.
So i think any sort of dac should do, as long as its just a "stupid" dac. So just usb in sound out without any other fancy features that might require a driver.
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Am personally using a shiit magni modi stack on endeavour os.
So i think any sort of dac should do, as long as its just a "stupid" dac. So just usb in sound out without any other fancy features that might require a driver.
I'm also running a schiit stack and would recommend it.
thank you both, i'll see if i can get a schiit modi shipped to me for reasonable price. it seems that is what i'm looking for.
You can also just get a Apple usb-c to aux "dongle" (which is a mighty fine dac)
I have Behringer U-Phoria UMC202HD and it just works. Plug'n'play at least for Ubuntu, Mint and Raspbian for both input and output.
I use my behringer with active speakers, but it can run headphones just fine without anything else. But as you're planning to connect that into an amplifier a full DAC is a bit overkill, since a simple USB sound card is well enough to output on line levels. Cheap ones just tend to have quite poor sound quality, I've had few of them and worst ones pass trough noise when there's any activity on USB. One Creative USB sound card I used (I think it's still at some drawer gathering dust) had really low input/output levels and there was nothing I could do for it, it might have worked better with windows drivers, but I didn't even try.
But majority of DACs and USB sound cards will just work.
Thanks for the info. seeing as the Schiit modi isn't available in the store that ships to my country, i might go for something like that. what do you think of the cheaper UM2? it looks like it'll do what i need it to, but will the quality be audibly worse? i do have a set of old speakers that sound great to my ears (with a good source)
I suppose it has same internals than bigger model and should work just as well. I just needed two inputs for the project I tinkered with and once I ditched the project that got left over and now it's connected more or less permanently to my workstation.
I'm currently in a similar situation to yours; this is what I've found so far:
By the way:
Look to FIIO. They have million models for all budgets. I'm using E10K for last 5? years. Best 100$ I ever spent. I would add physical volume knob on it is extremely convenient. Love it.
I use a Volt 276 (audio interface so it's not exactly the same as a DAC) but I've have no problems at all. Never had to install drivers nor fiddle with it to make it work