ted_b;162937 Wrote: > No offense, but I owned a Lex MC-1 for many years. It's 2 channel audio > quality is not its' strong suite (Logic7 is). Anyway, I dont understand > your comment about the MC-1 not needing to do D/A with analog inputs. > It's an all-digital pre/pro, so not only does it always do a D/A but > with analog inputs it does an addtl A/D then D/A (unless you rig up a > config that you run it through Zone 2 and use some switchbox or > something like Shawn Fogg recommended). Furthermore, the D/A in the > MC-1 is not a good musical path, and has been overwhelmingly reviewed > as such. Don't get me wrong, the MC-1 is a major kick-ass surround > processor, and Logic7 remains the penultimate 7.1 surround methodolgy; > music surround is fun, too, but not a clean audiophile solution. It's > just not going to do your Slim Devices rig(s) any favors in keeping a 2 > channel analog (or digital for that matter) signal pure and clean. Get > a simple 2 channel preamp with a HT bypass (so the Lex can still > coexist). Either of your Slim Device decisions will sound much much > better.
In that case it's surprising he prefers the sound of the CD-1, as it is almost certainly more distorted going through the Lex (due to the additional D->A and A->D) than the digital out of the SB. It just goes to show, once again, that percieved quality in non-blind tests has much more to do with expectations than it does with the intrinsic character of the sound. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30668 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
