DAC CAN,T CHOOSE

Which one would you go for Benchmark dac1 or Lucid 88192 for printing to computer?

cheers

skal

can any mastering guys help me with this  decision,  going to hit the button in a few hours

cheers

skal

Do you need the 8 channels of the 88192? What is the price difference? Never used the dac1 but used to have the 88192. I liked the d/a especially the upsampling option. . On some units the a/d side is wired pin 3 hot.  Also the unit sounded better with a better external clock.

Are these your only two choices?

lucid  88192 is up at £400  benchmark dac1 went for £270 i missed the benchmark ,

cheers  john12ax7 do you think thats to much for the lucid?

yeah could  find a use for the extra i/o

regards

skal

That's about $500 I think? If so would say that's a reasonable price.

They are good units,  with a few caveats as mentioned. Also there are a lot of menus/options,  so if you get it you should go through and put all the settings where you want them. And you may need to make some phase reversed input cables.

I recently upgraded my main ADDA converters to second hand Lucid 88192 and i am very happy with them for both ad and da. Crystal clear sound, nothing added or substracted, reverb tails are clearer, also issues in a mix. I read about clocking being a weak point in Lucid, i both tried master and slave with a RME FF800 and did not notice any audible difference, i just left RME as a master and slaved Lucid without any issues.

Lucid is also very customisable, out and in trim and boost, you can patch any input to any output.

cheers mate  for your input ...

Regards

Denis