Curt962;627595 Wrote: > Pardon me if I'm a little brash in my feelings on the matter...but this > is where I get off the audiophile bus. > > It's really all about price. Come clean with me. If this ASUS unit > were priced at let's say...$3000, it would be safe to assume that folks > would DEFINITELY be interested. Yes? So let's put this device in a > billet aluminum chassis (with a monstrous power cord), and call it the > ASUS Reference. Perhaps the "Statement" or something to that effect. > Maybe $3000 is too low. $7500 might make a bigger splash. > > None of us have heard the thing, and maybe it sucks. Then again, > maybe it's really good! Get it on the bench and first...prove to me > that the DAC is doing something. If it turns in a run of the mill DAC > resolution performance...then nobody cares. Before I buy a standalone > DAC...it needs to outperform the Transporter DAC resolution, and so > far...I haven't seen any tests that prove anyone does. > > It's just about audiophiles picking apart (or more accurately, casting > aspersions based on price) products that none of us have heard which > grinds me. > > Rant over. :(
But the bezel is pretty cool, and the Qin Long etched into the top is said to decrease jitter. -- ob_kook Duet --> Axiom passive pre --> Portal Paladin monoblocks --> Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MKII SB2 --> Denon AVR4800 --> Klipsch KG4 Squeezebox Boom Squeezeserver running on a virtual Win7 machine within 2008 R2 Server Hyper-V ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ob_kook's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87286 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
