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I haven't heard a Meitner DAC, but I have heard quite a few DSD recordings made with the Meitner ADC and was able to come to the conclusion that the Grimm ADC sounded better. (Channel Classics makes pure DSD recordings using both of these converters.) In addition, Bruce Brown has made a number of comparison files with various DSD ADCs, all driven off the same tape deck playing master tapes. These are (or were) available for download, linked from the thread below. After listening to these converters, I concluded that the Grimm beat all the other ADCs at DSD64 and wasn't beat by any of them running at DSD128 either, although the Horus seems to be a close runner up.

When it comes to evaluating DAC quality, the best reference is a live microphone feed or 30 IPS master tape. One compares the straight feed with the ADC - storage - DAC feed. Once one gets to the point where the difference is not significant then there is little need to listen to newer equipment for non-sonic reasons. Without a reference of this kind, one can not tell whether effects, such as high frequency glare, are on the recording and should be reproduced or are an artifact created by a DAC.


Tony Lauck

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



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