Chaka;140042 Wrote:
would have guessed it would have been a discrete component design given
the price.
No, to get into serious audiophile pricing, Sean and company would have
to at least double it, maybe add a zero.
seanadams wrote:
how would that be better?
I'm not Chaka, so I'm just butting in.
In the audiophile world, there are magic quality points for having an
all discrete class A design. Ignoring the minor fact that the design
class (A, B, AB, etc.) has little to nothing to do with sound. But since
A versus B versus D was important in high school and college grades, it
must be true of circuit topologies as well.
Discrete has to be better, because hand soldering in components with
variances in many parameters has to be better than using a chip.
Some of these same beliefs are also totally accepted in the recording
industry.
At least the recording engineers don't buy into the claim that point to
point wiring is always better than PCB traces.
--
Pat Farrell PRC recording studio
http://www.pfarrell.com/PRC
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