RE: Bob Neill made the same point about systems in general a year or so ago

I'm not ready to be in a camp yet and the camps you are describing involve a lot of overlap. Let's just say that some dacs (amps, speakers) interpret the information more than some others, yielding various results which we take to be degrees of presence or transportation!

In my house, as you {Frihed) know, I move among combinations of Audio Note, Blue Circle, Resolution Audio, Crimson, Jean Marie Reynaud, and Tocaro equipment, getting various amounts of interpretation, all of which please me in their different ways. I'm not ready to decide where I'll end up when I shut Amherst Audio down. Let's just say that the best of the most ambitious manipulators of sound can seduce the hardest of hearts, at least for a while; and that the best of those that manipulate the least can restore your sense of balance and truth.

Whether the dac, as the original poster has more or less been taken to suggest, is the principal in this matter I'm reluctant to conclude. But when I compare an Audio Note Dac 4.1 Signature to a Resolution Audio Cantata, it does make a significant difference of the kind he describes, even if you change around the rest of the gear down the chain. The AN dac will always warm/refine/enrich; the Cantata will always clean the windows.

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Topic - They are here, You are there - ahendler 15:22:42 09/5/14 (23)

IME this distinction is mostly due to the miking/engineering - Timbo in Oz 19:41:10 09/17/14 (0)

RE: They are here, You are there - stehno 19:20:23 09/12/14 (0)

Poppycock - Inmate51 12:12:20 09/7/14 (4)

RE: Poppycock - ahendler 12:18:36 09/7/14 (3)

RE: Poppycock - Inmate51 13:14:08 09/7/14 (2)

RE: Poppycock - ahendler 15:32:36 09/7/14 (1)

RE: Poppycock - Inmate51 15:34:18 09/9/14 (0)

Bob Neill made the same point about systems in general a year or so ago - Frihed89 10:17:29 09/6/14 (6)

RE: Bob Neill made the same point about systems in general a year or so ago - Bob Neill 09/7/1407:12:39 09/7/14 (5)

I think it's possible to have both things going on at once... - genungo 11:27:10 09/7/14 (4)

RE: I think it's possible to have both things going on at once... - Old SteveA 10:58:27 09/8/14 (3)

"it's possible to have both things going on at once".. - Bob Neill 14:10:29 09/8/14 (2)

RE: "it's possible to have both things going on at once".. - Frihed89 22:09:06 09/8/14 (1)

RE: "it's possible to have both things going on at once".. - Bob Neill 06:32:05 09/9/14 (0)

RE: They are here, You are there - rick_m 06:58:26 09/6/14 (0)

For studio recordings - G Squared 04:59:21 09/6/14 (0)

RE: They are here, You are there - Old SteveA 20:20:58 09/5/14 (2)

You don't listen to? ... - andyr 02:43:13 09/6/14 (1)

RE: You don't listen to? ... - Old SteveA 06:52:01 09/6/14 (0)

Host, or hosted? - genungo 17:16:15 09/5/14 (3)

RE: Host, or hosted? - jedrider 18:43:19 09/5/14 (2)

RE: Host, or hosted? - genungo 20:50:42 09/5/14 (1)

RE: Host, or hosted? - Old SteveA 07:08:58 09/6/14 (0)

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RE: Bob Neill made the same point about systems in general a year or so ago - Bob Neill 09/7/1407:12:39 09/7/14 (5)

I think it's possible to have both things going on at once... - genungo 11:27:10 09/7/14 (4)

RE: I think it's possible to have both things going on at once... - Old SteveA 10:58:27 09/8/14 (3)

"it's possible to have both things going on at once".. - Bob Neill 14:10:29 09/8/14 (2)

RE: "it's possible to have both things going on at once".. - Frihed89 22:09:06 09/8/14 (1)

RE: "it's possible to have both things going on at once".. - Bob Neill 06:32:05 09/9/14 (0)

RE: Bob Neill made the same point about systems in general a year or so ago

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