Archimago wrote: > > As for this: > -"Anyhow, I'm not sure demo gear comes to anyone for free for real."- -- > drmatt > > No. Nothing is really for free. The price is that of a review of sorts > and at least an endorsement, right? > > As for Chord, I have heard some great sounds from these at the local > audio show and showroom. The most interesting thing about these DACs I > think is how they've taken the opposite direction from MQA. Instead of > weak, poorly antialiasing digital filters of something like 32 to 64 > taps with MQA, they implement very long "brick wall" type filters with > tens of thousands of taps. If time domain performance were about impulse > responses, this is like giving the finger to Bob Stuart and MQA's > typical presentation material ;).
Yeah a review. If not an endorsement a fair shot at least. But it's true to say that no company is going to ship a ton of stuff at their own cost to people who consistently say unpleasant stuff about it. The best review sites are the ones who buy the gear themselves (opticallimits.com for example.). Yes, I really liked the Hugo, but didn't like it as much as the Mytek which I got for a third the price.. The FPGA approach was interesting. They threw so much hardware at the DAC part of the FPGA they ran out of space to implement stuff like a "default volume level", you know, things like that.. -Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk- -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108132 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
