Archimago wrote: > Who knows... Certainly the measurements for the old TDA1543x4 DAC was a > lot grungier, more jittery, and less resolving with 24-bit upsampling > (it's a 16-bit part). But objectively, in terms of the waveform itself > and the frequency roll-off, it looks like the TEAC does the job :-).
Just thinking out loud.. Friends of fringe designs such as NOS or Tube DAC's or both (heaven forbids ) usually claim that most "normal" designs sounds similar and/or wrong . When reading sites about some of the cult designs you can see that they are compound errors a flawed dac section is follow by a flawed analog section , for example audio note with some kind of passive I/V stage thats not linear anywhere ? I think such design are clearly audible and not transparent . And that digital bliss can only be achieved by said unorthodox design principle . It actually describes an aspect of the subjectivist the problem very good . 2 loose ends , no idea about how the original should sound like and not considering if the DAC actually is true to the original signal or not ? with that perspective anything can be right or wrong , but with the helping hand of audio press we know that the expensive way is right :) The flaw in the thinking is that you get some unknown x factor expect the obvious treble roll off and extra distortion , but thatÂ’s all there is , vivid imagination fills in the rest. Nothing wrong with a sligth treble roll of I use that myself , due to speaker placement and acoustics etc . In the end i think this is the only thing you actually get with the latest popular slow roll off filters apodising or whatnot , this can ofcourse sound less aggressive and "digital" but you could also tweak you treble control -0,5dB and be happy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98749
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