Vinyl

You're right, but MP3 players' DACs are overwhelmly pretty unusable for quality sound seekers and not too many standalone CD players feature decent DACs on their boards

I have found another, literally and figuratively less circuitous way of enhancing my listening experience at home: I removed all digital components from the signal path, got rid of some unnecessary items in the living room, and cleared earwax from my ears .. it's so much better now!

I do use digital while driving and doing yard work, but when you have the car engine (or lawn mower) sound for ambient noise, it's not the quality of your DAC that interferes with your listening experience the most.

As to why and where Mr. Progbethyname plugs in his discrete DAC, that it something we may never find out  ... the TT USB output? Maybe it's just the Way of the Ancestors in the DAC LAND (wherein he dwelleth, as per his profile) 

 

I thought about it, but to let your TT convert a pure analogue signal to digital and then connect a DAC to let it convert the digitalised signal back to analogue is.. not too proggy at all, to say the least. TT USB was meant to help folks digitalise their highly valued records, which is a great opportunity to produce some very own high resolution fantastic files, and to preserve the quality of degrading vinyls, but I cannot think about using it as a straightforward playback throuh un-dacing and in-dacing analogue signal. It's just weird, innit? How could this possibly improve the quality of sound? I do not personally think it's possible.

 

There are people who do use an ADC-DAC processor from vinyl to create a digital file. They can then manipulate the file and create hi rez digital files in 24/96 or 24/192 and now even convert them to DSD64/128 files if they have a DSD DAC.

 

This comes in handy if you are all digital files and what you listen to is not available as hi-res digital downloads...pretty much all prog is not available as hi-rez downloads.