P Floding;174085 Wrote: > I do find it surprising that you can accept that different DACs sound > different, but say that amplification is a solved problem... Surely > DACs measure very much the same?
Both are solved problems in the sense that it's relatively easy to build them in such a way that they measure close to perfectly and sound identical. However that doesn't mean they're all built that way. The Benchmark is, but I don't know about the Naim. The SB3 DAC measures significantly worse than the Benchmark; I don't know if that's audible (I suspect not, and I've compared it to two other DACs - not including the Benchmark - and found it to be identical, but can't be sure). In any case the important thing here is probably to believe you're listening to the best and therefore not worry about it, and the Benchmark is demonstrably among the best. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32037 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
