The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype

@donavabdear do you have the avid MTRX DA conversion from DAD? That one’s actually terrible especially for the price

@jasonbourne71 i’m sure some part of you has good intentions, but you’re coming across as a tool. and you’re factually wrong

As is this video, which we apparently have all suffered through

Just more Clickbait in the attention economy.

Anyone can call themselves a mastering engineer these days, but if we had a club, this guy would have his card revoked for putting out very bad information

Yes of course the chips are all good since the 90s, and it’s not relevant what matters most is the analog stage, the clock, and the filtering, which in high-end situations is done off the chip, in cheaper situations the chip does the filtering

The thing about cost is that it doesn’t always equal quality, but it generally points you in a good direction if you’re dealing with a reputable company

and it costs a lot of money to make incremental changes when you’re already at the high end

as a mastering engineer with credentials I can guarantee you that every converter has a very distinct sound when you have a very revealing chain, a great room, etc., and at a certain point, everyone has to decide what is sufficient for them, which is very similar to the audiophile world where people are basically building a musical instrument of playback

everyone knows converter chips are cheap and have been good for a long time, everyone except the gullible people he’s trying to suck into his YouTube page, if he was actually busy being a mastering engineer, he wouldn’t have time for that page and he wouldn’t say what he’s saying

@limomangus $2000 is a lot of money and there are many really good DA for 2000 or less and there are also some that are not so good

it’s not a contest on expense, use your ears and find what works for you

@choiceaudio I tried to engage with the guy in a respectful way and he was just playing games with me and I said look I understand you're new to this and he said I've been doing it 20 years, and I said OK so where are your credentials? You've been doing this for 20 years, the guy has literally no credits for work accomplished, all music.com etc.… So now he's resorted to inflammatory posts and branding himself as an expert, it's very typical of this era, but he's a fucking idiot.

@donavabdear the MTRX with DAD is for atmos ? in order to go a different direction you need external DA, there are many options, I use a combination of the merging with bricasti