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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: DAC Recommendations

Post Subject: Free and publicPosted by Romy the Cat on: 7/9/2013

Well, the parts and construction of these things I do not think are relevant. We are not in position to evaluate this and the most important no one has idea how it relates to sound. Years back I asked my digital expert to evaluate the literature that Antelope put out at that time, then they did only master clocks and that was what I was looking for. They said that there is nothing wrong in what they do but the marketing spiels they take are targeted to dilatants. DACs are complicated, sometime it might be heavy-technology DAC that might sound good or bad and sometime it might be some exotic single-chip with output transformer that also sounds good or bad.

What surprised me that the people who run the industry do not make any efforts to generalize the DACs. Pretend some kind of DAC convention somewhere in mid US with a great system setup and a limited referent tracks by all formats. Then you have a line of let say 30-50 DACs makers who supply the DACs for listening evaluation and the data is published. No BS, no pay entrance, no review, just a free and true completion and free public data. This is how industry shall be run. Why sprinters, tennisists, boxers and car makers compete publicly but DAC makers do not? There are zillion ways to make DACs to compete and make the objective results available but no one does it.

The Cat

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