ralphpnj wrote: > For me the big take away is that the playback of digital audio has now > reached a point where even relatively inexpensive hardware is capable of > doing a very good job. And this begs the question of what audible > improvement does one get when using a mega-buck audiophile DAC versus a > low cost (a few hundred dollars) run of the mill DAC. Basically I think > the whole audiophile DAC arena is shaping up to become similar to the > audiophile amplifier versus mass market amplifier in that the audible > differences have become almost irrelevant and are the subject of purely > subjective speculations. In other words, the "all solid state amps sound > the same" argument.
This has been the state for a while really. The DACs themselves have been more than good enough. A noisy output on a PC doesn't mean it's a bad DAC. For example, try and get any 'audiophile' to accept that a FiiO D03K could possibly be any good because it's so cheap :) They'd rather pay >£1k on something that does the same job. 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/probedb) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ probedb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7825 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102270
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