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| Are high sample rates making your music sound worse? Folks, I don't have time to go into all of it now, but there are LOTS of really serious errors in the statements being made here. e.g. "thinning out the music", e.g.: "you cant hear above 20 kHz so why 192?" These make really critical mis-assumpt... | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! I’m not taking sides here - because "it depends". Yes a system is only as strong as its weakest link. I’ll go one further, no component sounds good, but some distort the sound less than others..That said, i do think that within reason, speakers ha... | |
| Unforgiving DAC or add Tube Preamp?? Can i ask that we back this up? First describe the system more fully. transport, preamp, amp, speakers, etc.What material are you playing and complaining about? In my opinion there is great digital that i can only tell from analog by the absence o... | |
| DAC chips Elizabeth - Great answer, but why do you feel power suplies are so unimportant? Only Half :-)G | |
| DAC chips Truth is that the DAC chip is about the least most important question in "how good does a DAC sound?".So many more important questions. In my opinion, who cares.If i absolutey had to choose, cost as a factor, AK. But i would never, ever make a d... | |
| Are DAC's overpriced? I should add that all three, on good sounding CDs, were quite excellent. On bad material, well, GIGO. The MSB was probably the most dynamic. The Schiit and the Theta had a strong family resemblance, a more laid-back presentation, and therefore ma... | |
| Are DAC's overpriced? R2Rs are back on the market from Analog Devices. Schiit is using them in almost all their DACs as an upgrade.Now, i'll debate that they are hands down better. I had a new schiit BiFrost MultiBit (R2), a MSB Gold Full Nelson, and a Theta DSPro Gen ... | |
| Are DAC's overpriced? mrkoven-Can you provide more context on your system, room, listening method, expectations, and findings?I'll note that discussing the DAVE int he context of budget DACs is kinda silly.... but its nice that you can try such things. I like the qutes... | |
| Are DAC's overpriced? The average blue collar guy can buy a Schiit Modi for $99. I did.Interesting you brought up MSB. I have a Full Nelson Gold. Also added a magic tandem PLL in it, and over the past few weeks built God's own (with apologies to God) external power su... | |
| Good DACs have known benefits, But what About Streamers Did i mention i HATE the editor here that crunches all the formatting i create, to make it easy to read, into giant, muddled paragrphs? That dont seem to end?Just like most audio muddles complex music into some amorphous tone. | |
| Good DACs have known benefits, But what About Streamers Jworth - i don't follow your question, although i do support the recommendation to immerse yourself in Hans''s stuff....Where are all thes DACs?A streamer has no DAC. A DAC takes a USB feed. Something (might be the DAC, might be a device) converts... | |
| Good DACs have known benefits, But what About Streamers I’m digging in right now. Here’s the deal. With SPDIF, the connection to a DAC is synchronous, and the transport (sender) is the clock. So your DAC is limited to the quality of the incoming signal, improved by whatever jitter reduction it can do. ... | |
| Are DAC's overpriced? OK, I'll try to provide a little less rant-ish reply ;_) (although i stand by what i said).If your question is really "what should I do about my digital?" - that's a very different question. let me first emphasize truths that have been stated her... | |
| Some components too old now? Oh, one interesting caveat. We had a group listn to two old DACs - that were eye -popping whne they came out 20-25 years ago, and one new one, a schiit BiFrost Multibit. Long story short the 1994 Theta DSPro hung on with the Schiit - and was gen... | |
| Some components too old now? I dont know those specific components well, but in general i agree with Eric and others. The preamp is probably fine the DAC likely can be vastly bettered ( and Schiit is a great place to start). I can't speak for the Marantz, but bear in mind th... |