Skunk Wrote: > Sometimes you just have to leave well-enough alone :) Benchmark has some > great reading linked from their site.
Regarding the Benchmark, I just read a review by Peter Aczel of The Audio Critic (which for $12 gives you a lifetime subscription to the webzine). This guy performs all his own measurements, and gives no-nonsense, no-bull reviews. This is his conclusion, "It should be obvious from the above discussion, at least to those familiar with The Audio Critic, that the Benchmark DAC1 has no sound of its own, transparently passing on to its output the quality of its input. Whatever sonic peculiarities may perchance be audible are due to the input signal, not the DAC1 circuit. Even if the circuit were a lot less perfect, that would still be the case." In the review, he basically stated that the DAC1 measures as perfectly neutral a device as he's ever seen. Regarding jitter, he couldn't find any "noisy sidebands" indicating jitter. Anyway, it looks like you really don't have to (and shouldn't) shell out any more than the cost of a DAC-1 (~1000) for the ultimate in CD playback. -- ezkcdude ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ezkcdude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2545 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19636 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
