desertrat58;169272 Wrote: > Thanks dlite, for info on Benchmark and Lavry. These are the 2 I've been > considering heavily, and I read a shootout between the two where a pro > audio reviewer loved the sound of the Lavry over the wonderful features > of the Benchmark.
This may not be a popular response but... Check out the Benchmark DAC1 review from The Audio Critic: http://theaudiocritic.com/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=10&blogId=1 If its effectively perfect digitially why pay more? Personally, I am in TAC's camp, not the subjectivist camp. If the DAC tests flat with no harmonics, distortion, flat response, etc then I don't see any way based on electronics or physics that it can have a audio color, just like with solid state amps. Suggestion/placebo are powerful effects that are difficult to control for in experimental design. Yet to this day, even in the face of double blind testing that shows otherwise, people argue for solid state amps with high impedance, low noise and flat response to have a color. I bet you the Tp will test out comparably to the DAC1. So the argument to be made is why buy a Tp when you can buy a SB3 and DAC1 and save a couple of hundred USD. Well, my answer is because I want it all in one package... And, there is some arguement that very small amounts of jitter are in fact audible. The Tp has better published jitter specs. Audible or not? Only a double blind study will tell for sure and I haven't heard of one. (the real answer is the Tp is way cooler) Also, I assume you looked at the review where subjectively they did not see a difference in the reference CD transport system to the Tp? On the AB test with the reference system the review says (in comparison to the reference CD transport): > The results astonished me. I was flabbergasted at how hard I struggled > and strained to hear any difference whatsoever between them. Then, when > at last I thought I could hear something, I wasnt sure -- and I > couldnt even tell which one was better, if at all. Basically, I had to > call it a draw. http://www.soundstageav.com/onhifi.html -- Eric Carroll ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Carroll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9293 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31533 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
