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In the Thread: Berkeley Audio Design's Alfa Reference DAC.

Post Subject: Well, it fits the pattern.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/13/2014

There is an interesting and predictable pattern: the pattern of the idiot-reviewer above universal stupidity. Those people are so uninformed about themselves and about world that they do not even feel where they expose own incompetence and short mildness.

The idiot-reviewer above suggested that new Berkeley DAC is some kind of hugely superior DAC to the old Berkeley DAC, presumably the fool do not know any other DACs or know the definition of world “better”. Why people like me shall laugh about the comment like this even though I did not hear the Berkeley?
Well, a few years back the very same person expressed the very same sentiment about the old Berkeley DAC. Since then the old Berkeley DAC has a few revisions and become even better. So, was the old Berkeley DAC was in fact so bad that today the idiot-reviewer have realized it? No, not really. There was no problem with neither or new Berkeley DACs. I am pretty sure that bother of them are fine DACs, very compatible with top flying DACs of today. The truth is that if you compare two of very-very good devises of identical class, let say two very good tuners, or two good very turntables, or two good amplifiers then the different between them will be very minor and the difference will exist ONLY for the people with very highly discriminative reference points and refine preferences. That is the definition of a “very good devises of identical class”. If you have two very good tonearms then they will perform near identical with very slight deference that will not make one better and another worse but rather it would make them different. If it does not happen then you have one good tonearm and another bad one.

In case of the Moron above he clearly does not have a refine taste or discriminative reference points in DAC . He brainlessly trumpet whatever is given to him and his reviews remind me the old joke when a patron complains to a waiter that he just saw a piece of shit in his plate with soup. “That was a reflection” - the waiter responded.

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