opaqueice;130436 Wrote: > Just FYI, there's a school of thought on this which says money spent on > a DAC is essentially a waste. The reasoning is that all reasonably > modern DACs sound more or less the same. I recently purchased a Dodson DAC-263, and have been doing various comparisons between it, the DAC internal to the SB3, and my prior Entech Number Cruncher 205.2 DAC. There are very substantial differences in sound between them, and thus far, I'm thinking that the Dodson might be the best audio purchase I've ever made. I never knew how good my music could sound. (At some point, I'll get around to posting a detailed comparison between these DAC configurations.)
Even if most modern DACs used equivalent quality digital converter chips (which I'm not claiming), the analog sections in DACs vary tremendously. There's a school of thought which says that a DAC's op amps make more audible difference then its digital chips. -- TiredLegs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TiredLegs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26598 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
