He also called the difference "irrelevant" for general listening. Now, that's saying a lot.
Again, I don't really know much about the Levison DAC. However, with a cutting-edge device, such as the Mytek or Lavry, devices that fully buffer and re-clock the incoming signal, differences in transport -- short of skipping CDs or whatever -- are irrelevant or at least audibly irrelevant. I definitely noticed a difference when using the Lavry DAC -- and other DACs, for that matter. However, my experience was akin to JA's: for less then really attentive critical listening with certain music kinds...the differences between the stock SB and SB/DAC became far less relevant. To my taste, at least. I just don't get so buggy about the finest nuances, I suppose, and I don't chase after them with an open wallet. So much of audio, I think, is akin to bike racing. With serious road bikes, a gram of weight costs around a buck. When you're talking about stripping down half a pound somehow, you're talking about a lot of money. On the other hand...you can easily lose half a pound working out hard for a couple or three days. Ditto with audio: it is a lot easier, and cheaper, and more effective, to invest time in careful speaker placement rather than throwing an additional $5,700 at a fancier transport... -- highdudgeon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ highdudgeon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2195 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
