highdudgeon Wrote: > One follow-up: > > I had a Lavry DA10 in-house for some six weeks. I sent it back for a > repair, they are backordered, and now I'm getting a refund. I guess I > can order another one down the line. > > Anyway, here's my take, having heard the Benchmark and, extensively, > the Lavry in my house: I think the advantages of an ourboard DAC are > minimal, especially once you consider the price. A thousand dollars is > a thousand dollars and that buys a lot of CDs. Yes, there was some > improvement -- some -- in imaging and clarity of minute sounds. > Sometimes I could tell and sometimes I could not. (I had the analog > outs going to one preamp input and the digital out to the DAC to > another preamp input). Right now I'm living without an outboard > DAC...and not really missing anything. Electronics by Bel Canto and > Carver, speakers by Harbeth ($9,000 speakers at that).
Maybe the Lavry was defective, or maybe there are other colorations in your system making it hard to notice the external DAC differences. -- mauidan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mauidan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17948 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
