In Reply to: How can a DAC so dinky sound so good? posted by scruffy_ on November 13, 2012 at 07:58:46:
Why not?
IMO DAC's sound more similar than different... Just borrow a few, including big buck ones and do some A/B comparison plugged into different inputs (use an SPL meter to make sure they're all set at the same volume) and maybe a couple of computers playing the same song synchronized so you can flip between inputs to hear the difference.
I've said here many times that there's almost no difference between standard oversampling DAC's unless they're so crappy that noise is leaking through or have aliasing / roll-off (eg. NOS).
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- RE: How can a DAC so dinky sound so good? - Archimago 11/13/1209:03:18 11/13/12 (17)
- "DAC's sound more similar than different" - for an average consumer they would, surely. - carcass93 11:17:56 11/13/12 (0)
- Sorry - E-Stat 09:22:39 11/13/12 (0)
- That's been my experience too. NT - scruffy_ 09:08:59 11/13/12 (3)
- It's cool if you want to limit your experiences - Sordidman 09:09:41 11/13/12 (2)
- "it's another to extend beyond yourself..." - Archimago 09:17:09 11/13/12 (1)
- And few do: Speaking for myself... - Sordidman 09:49:36 11/13/12 (0)
- Or, unless the rest of your system is not good enough - Sordidman 09:08:57 11/13/12 (10)
- RE: Or, unless the rest of your system is not good enough - Archimago 09:23:00 11/13/12 (9)
- Not talking about DACs dude. - Sordidman 09:57:15 11/13/12 (8)
- RE: Not talking about DACs dude. - rick_m 11:09:05 11/13/12 (7)
- RE: Not talking about DACs dude. - Tony Lauck 14:23:25 11/13/12 (0)
- No, not my rules: & not what I implied or said. - Sordidman 11:47:00 11/13/12 (0)
- And your opinion on the subject is.... ? - carcass93 11:25:50 11/13/12 (4)
- RE: And your opinion on the subject is.... ? - rick_m 13:45:23 11/13/12 (3)
- "Filtering" data? I'm not sure how I could NOT do that. - carcass93 14:38:45 11/13/12 (1)
- RE: "Filtering" data? I'm not sure how I could NOT do that. - rick_m 15:13:20 11/13/12 (0)
- filtering data? - Sordidman 14:15:14 11/13/12 (0)