> cheap USB DACs
These numbers are several years old now, but Apple USB-C DACs do perform very well overall regardless of price point: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r....
EM noise is something that someone would notice, so I'm sure Apple would have nuked it from orbit until it's completely imperceptible.
Yeah, to be clear I expect the Apple ones do fine. The ones I had issue with were not Apple.
Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation
by TacticalCoder on Friday March 03, 2023 @08:39PM
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> It looks like these start at $250? I'd expect them to work well.
Price inflated, like the price of nearly everything. I paid mine 150 EUR back in the days (still not cheap but not either the 4 digits high-end audiophile stuff).
The thing is: you want thing to work fine from Linux's side and in my experience USB Audio on Linux just works.
I'm sure there are other brands/models at reasonable price points.
It looks like these start at $250? I'd expect them to work well. I'm more wary of this pricepoint:
> Apple sells $10 USB-C-to-3.5mmjack DAC
I've gotten a lot less EM noise with builtin soundcards than cheap USB DACs, but YMMV.