edwardthern wrote: > I've had quite a few Dacs over the years, as many people probably had > too. > > I've heard different implementations of the Sabre chip, from mellow with > the Wadia Dac to slightly on the hard side. I've heard a few Dacs with > AD chips, they tend to sound very lively and very good extension almost > on the wild side. BB also makes some nice evenly toned Dac chips and of > course the TDA1543 Dac chips used in many NOS Dacs....love um. WM Dac > chips seem to have a real fullness and lushness about them. But my > favorite is the PCM1704UK. > > Rank: > PCM1704 > TDA1543 - I'd almost rank this #1 due to its character alone but the > PCM1704 beats it. > Sabre > WM > AD > others
Most of the above is about how identical sounding hardware can be perceived as sounding different and ranked by someone who will not hold to the relevant Science (is he ignorant of it or just plain willfull?) which says that they are sonically indistinguishable. In the case of TDA 1534 and a few others the claim lacks necessary details. They are extra susceptible to being intentionally incorrectly implemented and actually sounding different, in *some* (but not all) configurations. They are the SETs of the DAC world - a retro product intentionally implemented to function as tone controls, and not as good amplifiers or DACs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106575 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
