I can't hear any difference.

Digital Drive

Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

I have a Bryston BCD1 cd player that I've owned for 10 years and have
been quite happy with. I recently purchased a PSAudio GCD/preamp. I
decided I would pipe the digital output of the BCD1 thru the dac in the
GCD/preamp. The GCG has 11 inputs so I can switch back and forth between
the analog output of the Bryston and the analog output of the GCD/preamp.

So I did that with many different CDs. I can hear no difference. None.
Sometimes I think I prefer one, then I think I prefer the other.

The Bryston is about 10 years older than the PSAudio piece.

The only thing I can conclude is that Bryston did one hell of an engineering job on the BCD1. So Kudos to Bryston.

Kudos to PSAudio too for creating a great, inexpensive dac/preamp that
sounds quite fine.

Or could it be that my hearing is just shot ...

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Topic - I can't hear any difference. - Mike K 12:31:26 12/12/20 (12)

RE: I can't hear any difference. - Bill Way 10:58:57 12/14/20 (0)

RE: I can't hear any difference. - Rocket_Powered 06:22:40 12/14/20 (6)

CAL Delta & Alpha - Luminator 09:17:17 12/14/20 (5)

RE: CAL Delta & Alpha - AbeCollins 15:57:45 12/14/20 (1)

At least here... - Luminator 16:36:03 12/14/20 (0)

RE: CAL Delta & Alpha - Rocket_Powered 11:27:47 12/14/20 (2)

RE: CAL Delta & Alpha - Luminator 12:51:18 12/14/20 (1)

RE: CAL Delta & Alpha - Rocket_Powered 14:21:22 12/14/20 (0)

Sounds like good news to me - E-Stat 16:49:32 12/12/20 (0)

RE: I can't hear any difference. - Jonesy 13:42:47 12/12/20 (2)

RE: I can't hear any difference. - PAR 15:29:45 12/12/20 (1)

RE: I can't hear any difference. - Jonesy 17:58:40 12/12/20 (0)

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