Pascal Hibon wrote: > The W4S DAC-2 and the Audiolab M-DAC turned out to be very close in > terms of sound quality. The consensus among the listeners was that the > M-DAC was slightly better (slightly better bass control). But again, the > difference was very minor. Both of these DAC's use the same ESS dac > chip.
I suspect that any preference there might be down to filtering, ie. a John Westlake filter design, rather than using the default steep/slow filter built into the 9018. Just speculating. Which brings us back to the JS (and mine) hobby horse, that just about any filter cobbled together from rotting chicken carcass and a smashed calculator, (or preferably in software or simple JS FPGA design ;)), will trounce what most of todays chips have built-in. But then what do I know..... I don't worship at the alter of anything but the "digital sounding memcpy"...... And I don't believe half the crap I've read in the last 7 days about all things digital, from people who quite frankly should know better, (or learn how to search using Google), before sprouting their "gospel"..... The joke being, that 99% of these arm-chair experts, probably couldn't tell the flipping difference between an ipod and a high-end DAC in a blind listening test, let alone find their own backside with both hands. Maybe we need to stress that what we are trying to do with CS is totally low-end and lo-fi.... Maybe that'll avoid us garnering the attention of the "audiofool fruitcakes"..... LOL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
