kphinney wrote: > Sorry for the confusion Pat. A little typo, which I fixed in my posts. > I'm considering the Meridian 566.
Oh, that is totally different. Their 566 DAC is very old, the data sheet is from 1996. http://www.meridian-audio.com/data/566.pdf If it is cheap enough, it might be worth a flyer. But DACs get better with Moore's law. maybe not doubling every two years, but getting significantly better. While Meridian stuff is well engineered and expensive originaly, I would not expect something that ancient to be much of an improvement. A used Benchmark DAC-1, on the other hand, sounded much better than my SqueezeBox. I used it until I got my Transporter. Both the Meridian and the Benchmark have fairly stable prices these days so you could buy one, listen for a month, and sell it if you are not in love, without losing much money. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
