At the end of the day, the DAC that sounds best in your system under blind listening conditions is the one that you prefer irrelevant of the technology used. If you like a soft warm sound for relaxed listening then a lively, dynamic sounding DAC would not be for you despite the fact that it may get great reviews. I continuously find that users obsess about the technical aspects when really all that counts is how it sounds and how much it costs and of course aesthetics (blind listening over!).
The Sonance is like any other DAC, sensitive to a greater or lesser extent to the signal it sees at its digital input. This "digital source" includes all cables, the digital source itself and any other form of jitter creation such as local ground loops between the DAC and transport if they exist, interference picked up by the cable etc. They all add together to alter the quality of the digital signal that the DAC receives, and this of course then alters the DACs performance to a small degree. A better digital signal can always be heard versus a poor quality digital signal on any DAC. The bottom line though is always how does it sound? In the case of the Sonance in its latest guise (updated early October 07) is excellent and comparable to far more expensive DACs, especially whit a price discount. Dave Prichard -- NET Audio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NET Audio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39855
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