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The Avantree is far better with a descent output volume level and a full rich sounding output. I guess you get what you pay for so I returned this DAC and purchased an Avantree DAC at £24.99 which has a volume control. Even with the bass control on my Denon amp cranked up to the maximum level the sound was "tinny" with hardly any bass. There seemed to be a total lack of bass content especially noticeable when listening to music or a film. I was not impressed with the sound quality from this DAC. Consequently I had to keep re-activating my Denon amp every 20 mins!! As the output from this DAC is so low my Denon amp would go into standby mode while listening to the TV. The low level from this DAC also caused another problem as my Denon amplifier has a standby mode feature that is activated if the amplifier doesn't detect any input signal over a 20 minute period. This is annoying as when switching to a different sound source like CD or DVD I have to remember to wind the volume level down or I will be blasted with very loud music!! This means I have to crank up the volume control on my Denon amplifier to a very high level.
The line output and headphone socket on this DAC has no volume control and is fixed at a very low level. My new Samsung TV did not have a audio line output or headphone socket and so I purchased this optical DAC to allow me play the TV sound through my Denon amp and speakers. It's a simple and neat unit, easily hidden out of the way and doing an admirable job, considering its price point. On this note, this also raises the only criticism, that being the output of this DAC is quite low so the volume of the connected amp does need to be cranked up. If this DAC is used for TV to amp, you will not be able to alter volume from TV remote but must use the volume on your amp (I was aware of this but many folk may not realise). One final note, digital/optical output on a TV is not varied by volume control and is fixed. If being used for similar conversion, you'll need to check the output mode of your TV optical interface and ensure this is set to PCM, note too that this DAC will only convert to standard stereo output to amp and not help with any Dolby surround/5.1/Atmos output.īTW, this is a digital to analogue converter only and can not be used in reverse to convert analogue to digital. The audio conversion seems to be very good, no obvious distortion or lack of clarity, no interference or white noise of any sort, even on the quietest of scenes.
This does the job very well (so far), it was easy enough to install with using the supplied optical cable from TV to the DACs input, a decent phono cable from DAC to amp and the supplied USB cable to power the unit in my case, the USB of my Panasonic TV provides sufficient output to power the DAC, so no need for another power source. Well, I gotta admit I was sceptical of this for the price, but thought I'd chance this DAC, as it seemed an easy solution to extract audio from TV to conventional amp (ie no HDMI on amp).