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In Reply to: TC Electronic BMC-2 - pro audio DAC posted by Old Listener on July 6, 2011 at 09:17:19:
Thanks for the info. There are a lot of options, that's fer sure.
I'm still using my ancient EAD and it still sounds good to me. Doesn't do hi-res however or USB. It also stands out as the only time I had an ID concern in my system. They originally came with a gold plated face and the one I borrowed to try really loomed out from the blackness. Fortunately when I ordered mine they had just introduced a black faced option so it blends right in.
I dug out my papers on it a while back and noticed that I had failed to take advantage of a free upgrade of the receiver chip to one that had lower jitter. That was so long ago that the company has folded and the IC is no longer available on DIP. However it is still around in SOIC so I could use an adaptor. Guess I'm not really a tweaker at heart, if I'm happy with something I tend to leave it alone hoping that it will keep delivering the goods. That very philosophy was why I didn't bother ordering the free chip, a mistake in hindsight. I now feed it with three different transports and find that there is some synergy between disks and players so I'm probably short on jitter rejection. That suggests trying candidate DACs with several sources and disks with consistency being the goal. The $64,000 question is what does one do if an inconsistent unit with it's best transport beats the consistent model?
I'm always impressed when users or reviewers manage to declare that something is "the best". I could never do it without a string of of qualifiers and to do so based upon a single sample is an absurdity. That's life!
Rick
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