I do normally play music through 7ch mode/2ch mode so I guess this is not a fair test. I do have a pure direct mode on my amp so I will give it a go!!
I don't know much about DAC's so I was asking an innocent question - Would the DAC on a £900 AV amp be better than a £165 SB DAC? I get the opinion that you would definitely favour the SB? pfarrell Wrote: > samplesj wrote: > > Its likely unless you are fairly careful that the receiver is going > to > > put the input signal through an ADC and then back through its DAC > even > > when fed analog. > > A lot of (all?) reasonably priced consumer theater receivers convert > all > analog signals to digital using their own ADC so they can do things > like > room mode, virtual effects, cathedral mode, etc. It takes a fairly > expensive one to even have pure pass thru analog. For a lot of folks, > they need bass management, since their main speakers are too small to > play bass, all the sat/sub systems need to digitize things just to fire > > up the bass management software. > > For any of these receivers, using their internal DAC makes sense even > though it is unlikely that they are as 'good' or well engineered as the > > one in the SB3. Not so slam Yamaha, Pioneer, etc, but because we know > Sean cares about this stuff, and makes it one of his design goals. > > -- > Pat > http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html -- dazzler9000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dazzler9000's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7099 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26617 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
