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In Reply to: Re: I beg to differ... posted by theaudiohobby on August 23, 2004 at 03:43:24:
I agree that the sonic signatures would be slightly different, due to differences in processing. However, all digital technologies share common problems, like clock jitter. They are no different in that regard from DACs. Some people are more sensitive to such distortions, some people less.
The bottom line is really the issue of your priorities. If you values dynamics as the most important aspect of realistic sound reproduction then the excellent efficiency and seemingly infinite power reserves of digital amps just cannot be matched.
I'll admit that I'm willing to sacrifice loudness and bass slam for the utmost tonal neutrality and coherency (by way of excellent instrument separation). My preferences limit me to small amps (just a reality, not a law of nature) and reasonably efficient speakers (and not necessarily horns). I hear sonic degradation (in long term listening) from amps with with parallel devices and bridged or push-pull configurations. Some people don't - or don't care.
Similarly for digital artifacts. Just different trade-offs!
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Follow Ups
- Different Technologies - serus 08/23/0410:54:29 08/23/04 (5)
- ICE is analog - muralman1 21:49:27 08/23/04 (0)
- Re: Different Technologies - Jack G 11:43:39 08/23/04 (2)
- Re: Different Technologies - serus 14:07:39 08/23/04 (1)
- Re: Different Technologies - theaudiohobby 14:37:03 08/23/04 (0)
- thanks for your clarification - theaudiohobby 11:06:49 08/23/04 (0)
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