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Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days?

I think the problem of DAC for quality audio has been pretty much universally solved.  Not to say all DACs are equal, they aren’t, but do any that really matter these days not sound “good”?

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devinplombier
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The sound-quality range, if you will, of digital audio is far more narrow than analog audio's, and it continues to narrow down.

 

devinplombier
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@chervokas 

Thanks, very interesting, I did not know that.

our ears and our brains are breaking down incoming complex waveforms into their component frequencies very much like an FFT, and, further, actually converting them into binary-like neural spikes -- when a stereocilia bundle is deflected it creates a nerve spike or no spike, functionally like a 1 or a 0

So, if I'm reading you correctly you are saying that our brains re-convert (analog) sound waves into digital?

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