Differences are there but are usually small. It's really one of those things where you miss what it did for you only after it is gone. Even via remote control with quick a-b versus a good internal dac may just yield small changes, but in time the small things add up. Are DACs overpriced for what they offer? Of course, but most become immune to the reaming in the hobby in time, and many get excited over thinking they just might be hearing a minute difference and instantly deam it as a huge improvement, touting it as the holy grail over the internet to affirm their obscene spendings, but such is the audiophile psyche....
Easy to discriminate between DAC ??
do not have the possibility in making A/B tests so i need to plug-deplug every time.
So far tested 4 different DAc but not so easy to find the better.
The sound timbre is really very similar, what I found different is the following:
- The slightly darker/warmer is Theta Chroma
- The slightly more transparent is CEC DAC integrated in TL 51Z MKII
- The slightly more nuance devoted is Swissonic DA96
- The clearly more aggressive is Minprint DI-Port
So what??
Can it be that the oldest one of the group,Theta old fashion 16 bit still sound very modern ?
How to make a jump in quality ?
Or it will always been a question of the personal taste of sound to make the choice ??
I would love to exchange opinions about and sorry for the elaborated question
Tks.
So far tested 4 different DAc but not so easy to find the better.
The sound timbre is really very similar, what I found different is the following:
- The slightly darker/warmer is Theta Chroma
- The slightly more transparent is CEC DAC integrated in TL 51Z MKII
- The slightly more nuance devoted is Swissonic DA96
- The clearly more aggressive is Minprint DI-Port
So what??
Can it be that the oldest one of the group,Theta old fashion 16 bit still sound very modern ?
How to make a jump in quality ?
Or it will always been a question of the personal taste of sound to make the choice ??
I would love to exchange opinions about and sorry for the elaborated question
Tks.
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