In Reply to: right:VRDS NEO sounds the same as a Plextor!! LOL posted by Sordidman on October 19, 2014 at 17:21:22:
Thorsten correctly pointed out that it could be the fault of the preamp and amps as well as the DAC, including their cabling. It would be possible to isolate the situation down to specific component(s). The situation is no different than I faced as teenaged radio ham when my ham radio transmitter caused interference to my neighbor's phonograph. It was absolutely (and legally) not my fault, it was faulty design of the the phonograph. The problem was fixed at the phonograph.
Note that DACs using SPDIF are broken by design and probably irretrievably so. The same may be true of unbalanced RCA level interconnects. None of this obsolete and inferior technology has any place in a high end system. I don't have any significant software related sound quality issues on my system. I have set up the system properly and do not use technology that was obsolete 20 years ago.
Most iTunes set ups are not bit perfect, at least on Windows which is my only experience. Software that changes what goes to the DAC is obviously going to change the sound. If one changes the bits in the file one can change Beethoven into Beatles. Your iTunes comment is a strawman.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: right:VRDS NEO sounds the same as a Plextor!! LOL - Tony Lauck 10/19/1418:42:49 10/19/14 (24)
- People with experience hear these products under a - Sordidman 09:28:19 10/20/14 (4)
- RE: People with experience hear these products under a - Tony Lauck 10:41:51 10/20/14 (3)
- Appreciate your comments: But they are out of scope - Sordidman 11:29:24 10/20/14 (2)
- RE: Appreciate your comments: But they are out of scope - Tony Lauck 11:42:02 10/20/14 (1)
- RE: Appreciate your comments: But they are out of scope - Sprezza Tura 12:10:39 10/20/14 (0)
- DACs using SPDIF are broken by design - fmak 22:07:10 10/19/14 (14)
- RE: DACs using SPDIF are broken by design - Tony Lauck 09:22:54 10/20/14 (13)
- Why expect heroic DAC engineering to overcome a flawed interface? - Dave_K 08:40:24 10/21/14 (3)
- RE: Why expect heroic DAC engineering to overcome a flawed interface? - fmak 22:03:52 10/21/14 (1)
- Hey Fred - Sordidman 14:50:55 10/22/14 (0)
- RE: Why expect heroic DAC engineering to overcome a flawed interface? - Tony Lauck 12:36:14 10/21/14 (0)
- RE: DACs using SPDIF are broken by design - Bob_C 23:11:31 10/20/14 (7)
- RE: DACs using SPDIF are broken by design - fmak 03:34:46 10/21/14 (6)
- RE: DACs using SPDIF are broken by design - Sprezza Tura 07:28:53 10/21/14 (0)
- RE: DACs using SPDIF are broken by design - Tony Lauck 06:54:48 10/21/14 (4)
- RE: DACs using SPDIF are broken by design - Sprezza Tura 07:32:44 10/21/14 (2)
- RE: DACs using SPDIF are broken by design - Tony Lauck 07:40:15 10/21/14 (1)
- RE: DACs using SPDIF are broken by design - Sprezza Tura 07:43:17 10/21/14 (0)
- RE: DACs using SPDIF are broken by design - fmak 07:25:34 10/21/14 (0)
- WaveIO = e99 + post + wait - fmak 21:59:10 10/20/14 (0)
- RE: right:VRDS NEO sounds the same as a Plextor!! LOL - Sprezza Tura 19:15:53 10/19/14 (3)
- RE: right:VRDS NEO sounds the same as a Plextor!! LOL - Tony Lauck 20:28:42 10/19/14 (2)
- RE: right:VRDS NEO sounds the same as a Plextor!! LOL - Sprezza Tura 20:41:23 10/19/14 (1)
- RE: right:VRDS NEO sounds the same as a Plextor!! LOL - fmak 22:11:26 10/19/14 (0)