I did a demo for a friend some years ago I A/B tested a Toshiba SD-210 with and without an external DAC. Without the external DAC, the music was pretty cold and sterile....
Throwing in an Audio Note DAC Zero directly improved the music to such an extent that any half deaf person would immediately note the differences. The warmth in the female voices was in another league.... The Toshiba is way different from the SB3, no comparison intended...... Subsequently I bought a Benchmark DAC1, I can clearly hear that the DAC1 is way way better than the Audio Note in my system, this may be different in someone else's system.... To say that there's no differences between anything is like saying the world is flat. We all know that the world is not flat, do we? Regards Harald N -- haraldo Suse Linux -> SB3 -> Benchmark DAC1 -> Krell KAV400xi -> Meadowlark Kestrel2 Everything is difficult before it's easy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ haraldo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13472 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34436 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
