DAC 'Scam' Vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oh6IkzZhrY

@hifikenobi 

a DAC is more than just the DA conversion, it is also the first pre-pre-amp in your analogue chain

Call me old fashioned, but how the US English language has changed!

I still think of a Digital to Analogue Converter (DAC) as just having the function of turning a digital signal into an analogue equivalent.  As such it is often implemented as a chip, and such chips offer vastly different capabilities which can often be discovered by looking at (what is missing from) their respective specification sheets.

This video is completely accurate. The plain truth. One would hope common sense would make it painfully obvious that beyond a certain point of build quality and parts (P/S in particular), the rest is B.S. Level match a properly working $1k DAC and A/B that with a $20k DAC in the same audio circuit and I’d bet anybody they will NEVER EVER be able to tell which is which. This is not what people that spend stupid money on components like this want to hear, and that is why the scamming will go on and on and on. BTW, did you know that if you place a 28 gram piece of meteorite on top of your DAC it will increase frequency coherancy through harmonic quantum convergence? 

Those who claimed that there is no differences between dac are deluded...

But those who claimed there is a big difference between dac are deluded too ...

( i spoke of dac with relatively the same bracket of price, a 100 $  dac dont compare with a few thousand dollars one in a high end system )

 Why ?

 Because it is the threefold well optimized  installation of the system/room in his three working dimensions : mechanical,electrical and especially acoustical that makes possible an audible evaluation of dac or of any piece of gear...

 Then this debate as the one between "objectivist" and "subjectivist" is grounded in a different  complementary ignorance by the two opposite camps...

 It is remarkable that i am almost the only one stating this evident fact...

"Level match a properly working $1k DAC and A/B that with a $20k DAC in the same audio circuit and I'd bet anybody they will NEVER EVER be able to tell which is which."

@wesheadley - Have you ever actually made that comparison yourself, or are you just speculating?