Hello,
At 11:10 15/07/2012, you wrote:
Having just made an attempt at comparing the Duet Receiver (SBR) and the
Touch (SBT) with and without external DACs (Theta DS3Pro, Audiolab MDAC
with and without EDO), with matched volume levels, here are my
observations:
- The SBR analog outs are not as good as the SBT's. The difference is
not night and days but can be reliably detected in blind testing ("lack
of air, less musical, reduced soundstage")
- With some 88.2/24 bit tracks (or with some higher sample rates), the
downconversion performed for the SBR can result in some hiss (This is
repeatable, but doesn't happen with all such tracks)
- The analog outs of the SBT are actually very good and very close to
what the MDAC on Toslink can deliver. There is a difference on some
tracks, but in my limited testing, it's not that easy to say which is
which, and which is better.
That is the impression that my less vigorous listening gave me.
Although i do not know if the line level output is lower on the SBT than my
Musical fidelity xdac (16bit 44khz) which may influence my opinion.
Interesting to read that your m-dac is close to the SBT.
I am looking at the Rega rdac ATM but maybe something less expensive
with more digital inputs would be a wiser purchase.
Martin N
Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on PowerPC Mac Mini, Moderator of
MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
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