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RE: Why does my 20 year old NON-NOS ladder DAC sound so good?

"I think the workings are important because all of them create unintended artifacts that seem to have an impact on the final outcome as heard by humans."


The workings are relevant only to those who know and understand the mechanisms involved and how they interact with perception. In most cases the inner workings of DACs are proprietary and the public information inadequate. In addition where there is more detailed information available it is generally beyond the scope of most audiophiles' understanding.

Most audiophiles are challenged by the implications of the various digital formats and the artifacts these necessarily imply. Unless they are technically curious and prepared to do a lot of homework, these people should confine themselves to the "What?" rather than the "How?" or "Why?". This means listening to a range of recordings in a variety of formats through a variety of playback systems and being very careful about attributing causes for what one hears. Components interact with recordings and with each other and it can be very hard to sort out these interactions by subjective listening. Measurements are also likely to be useless, because they were developed for older technologies and are being used and abused for marketing purposes.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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