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In the Thread: 47 Lab Digital
Post Subject: Cost vs. ValuePosted by Paul S on: 7/2/2012
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Stitch, I hope you understand that my great-sounding "American/Canadian" i-DAT 44+ is made from the cheap and tacky stock i-DAT 44, which is quite inexpensive but also not interesting, IMO. God knows where the stock unit was actually made, but it is also "cheap" in terms of build quality, etc. On the other hand, screw the "nation of origin", the box-stock AA "Drive" units are pretty much plug and play, even for a high-demands system, and they are well built to stay true.
You might insist on anything to start with and find yourself with a "project" to make it work in your system, or it might take regular fiddling with it to keep it in tune, or even to keep it up and running. No doubt Yoshi will steer you straight if you talk to him, according to what he understands about what you want. I was second-guessing that you might want an easy plug-and-play solution that you can ignore, once it's integrated, and from personal experience I know that the AA is such a "product". In my own case, I can barely make myself follow through with hi-fi projects anymore, so "ignore-able" quality is more important to me now than it used to be.
Best regards,
Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site