"difference is in the ear of the beholder" Actually, it is not. As I already mentioned, we were not able to hear a real difference. In particular, not the incredible effects some people are raving about in reviews and forums.
Of course, I know that a room can make a big difference, and probably the biggest one. (We moved from a modern building in Germany to a flat in an old house with 4.50 m high ceilings in Brussels. The former room was deep, the current one is broad. It was a pain to get rid of bass refections.) More over, my equipment was assembled with my listening preferences in mind. As I am not living on guaranteed bonuses, I tried to get good quality for the money I spent - about € 10000 overall. And no, I don't want to start experimenting. On the contrary, I want to stop and focus on listening again. However, as I find the SB 3 not only very convenient but perfectly acceptable from a sound perspective (my Creek Destiny CDP risks to start collecting dust), I was thinking about ways to improve it or replace it by playing the music directly from my mini PC to an external DAC. So far, I am not convinced it is worth the extra investment. I am quite capable of realizing differences between the cartridges of my turntable even nothing else is changed. I believe to hear a difference between flac and mp3 rips of the same CD. As regards the DAC's: not really. At least not after calibrating same to the same volume. Thus, I ask my question again: Is there really a difference we hear that could not be achieved by turning the volume knob? Doesn't the quality of the recording have a much bigger impact? Jörg -- jgenner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jgenner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34212 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75447
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