Can Digital beat our Analog installations?


Having gone a long walk on developing my analog systems I am addicted to phono reproduction. Nevertheless I always kept an eye on CDs and also SACDs. Before I currently updated my digital dCS chain to the complete Scarlatti boxes I experimented on the best wordclocking connections. in the end I decided going for an additional rubidium clock added to my Verona master clock.

I am using also a second system equipped with the Accuphase 800 drive and 801 DAC, an Esoteric XO1 Limited and a Wadia 861 SE for other utilization. Let's concentrate on the dCS stack. These four boxes are sounding such good and analog like that I like to question my friends, Why isn't Digital an alternative to our best analogue chains?

So it's time comparing digital vs. analog systems and maybe some sophisticated digital chains are beating our sophisticated analog systems. Will it be possible?
thuchan

Showing 1 response by mapman

The topic has been beat to death here over the last couple years. Not much new to say unless specific questions asked or making specific comparisons of specific products as opposed to digital versus analog in general.

"I'll go out on a limb and say wireless wi-fi connection is dramatically inferior"

Better climb back in a little.

I am a fan of the DCS Ring DAC technology...just waiting to be able to afford it again someday maybe.

Meanwhile my non oversampling mhdt Constantine DAC (<$400 used) does the job quite nicely for me and does not sound "digital".