Highlights
Quality
Play spotify from the laptop through the system and quality is also excellent you are dealing with lossless files here but unle... Read More
The build quality is amazing too very sturdy little piece of magic
The build quality is very solid overall and the dac does get warm to the touch when used for prolonged amount of time
A bit of interwebz search and i realised with windows media player 12 on windows 10 that cds can be ripped to flac which is bas... Read More
Packaging/appearance
For the past 18 months i have been using the smsl sd793ii which sitting at £53
In comparison my dgx was too quiet even at 100
Competitiveness
The sound quality has been great when using a spdif cable for input
I really like smsl products quite impressed with this really
The smsl m3s competition is the fiio e10k fiio e10k olympus usb dac and headphone amplifier black
Recommend using a separate power supply at 5v with at least 1000ma rating not included in package
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- This product had a total of 163 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 30 2020.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I purchased this from ebay for £50
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This was important because my computer in particular is very noisy electrically
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Reviews on the uk site were all very positive however looking on the american amazon site i could see that a good number of people had problems with it either arriving dead or going dead within around a month or so
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I worked out that you need to press the single button for a long time to switch it on and then press it quickly to switch it to the correct output
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is not at all obvious so it may be that some of the people complaining of it being dead on arrival had not worked this out
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Now when i played 96 or 192khz files the little light changes indicating that it is actually receiving the digital audio at the correct frequency
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However on windows also using vlc with the same hardware and despite choosing either direct audio or wave output with spdif output i could not make windows output the unaltered digital audio
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So i had to install foobar2000 along with a plugin for it that allows direct ouput and then it worked