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RE: right:VRDS NEO sounds the same as a Plextor!! LOL

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

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


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