darrenyeats wrote: > I pondered upon your comments and then I looked through Stereophile's > measurements on DACs with interesting results. See my post here: > http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/showthread.php?t=151401 I hope you > don't mind me name-dropping you!
Interesting post Darren... Interesting extrapolation of John's comment. However, I really don't know how reasonable it would be to extrapolate those monotonic cascade of harmonics with these DACs which as you indicate are down in the -100dB and below range! Tube amps have 2nd order harmonics at something like -40dB which is orders of magnitude louder in comparison... Furthermore, those graphs in Stereophile are with input impedances of 600-ohms off the DAC. This is of course way lower than the typical preamp in the tens of k-ohms. I'd love to see DBTs demonstrating ability for people to differentiate decent DACs when volume controlled. Until that's demonstrated, it's hard to put much weight in whatever theory there may be for euphonic vs. "dysphonic" gear. Show me the piece of steak exists first... Then we talk about how it tastes ;-) Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99360 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
