cliveb;154472 Wrote: > Sorry, I should have said that it would implicate the SB's analogue > output, not its DAC specifically. (For the record, I think the SB > analogue output is pretty damn good).
I've done some A/B tests with the SB3 DAC (analogue out) vs digital out to the NAD DAC in my NAD T743 (note:when set on stereo mode and tone defeat, the NAD passes analogue signals directly through its preamp and ouput stages, thereby by-passing any signal processing). The SB3 analogue has a much warmer, laid back 'being there - to borrow that phrase from an earlier post' sound about it whilst the NAD seems to push the soundstage forward and brightens up the whole profile of the music. I definitely prefer the SB3 to decode the digital..I was secretly hoping I'd have a much tougher time detecting the difference, by the way........ -- peejay After Silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music - Aldous Huxley. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7046 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29526 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
