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looking for advice for USB DAC (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi linuxhardware gang

i've been having some issue on my headphone jack, and the sound quality has never been great. this is on a small mini pc running arch linux.

So what i'm looking for is a device i can plug into my usb (preferably usb-C) and Linux will use it to play audio. i plan to plug that device into my amp, which i can use headphone jack or those white and red plugs for.

I hope USB DAC is the proper term, i'm kind of struggling to find products that do this.

anyway, does anyone have experience with products like this on linux? i don't want to have to hack together the software side. even just a brand recommendation will help.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.