@audiotroy @loomisjohnson @soix
+1 ….. big time….
Simply put, “what makes a good DAC?”.
Too many believe that the magic silver bullet secret to a good DAC lies in just choosing a “high-end” converter chip flavour of the day,
Chip design is important, BUT …. with hands-on audio experience and verified by direct unit audition bake-offs …. as we go up the price-point ladder, we also learned that the essence of the musicality also resides in the line signal processing stages, the power supplies (transformers, filtering, regulation), the digital signal processing before conversion, the quality of the key components: clocks, transistors, capacitors, etc. ….these are foundations of DAC sonic improvements