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One of the advantages of toslink is galvanic isolation. Are you having issues with noise from the chromacast?
Decent DAC's have improvement in several areas, low electrical noise on inputs, accuracy in the conversion, quality output amplification.
All of these things are noticeable in a critical listening situation but are just 'flavour' in more ambient listening setups. What kind of listening are you doing?
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Back on DAC chat - i'm finding myself mainly streaming stuff via chromacast audio & wondering if any of the cheap DACs will give me a noticeable increase in sound quality if I use the mini toslink output > DAC > amp?
My amp (cambridge axa35) doesn't have digital inputs or an onboard DAC, so i'm stuck with the analogue input - unless I chop the amp in for something that has a good DAC onboard instead of buying a separate one... thoughts?