opaqueice;162050 Wrote: > In this case the DAC is receiving a noisy signal and has an additional > disadvantage before it can even equal the TP. Of course there may be > DACs out there that can do this, or that simply have analogue stages > that sound better to some people, but that would be the exception > rather than the rule.
I agree that most external DACs (with the exception of one using a master/slave word clock) will be at a disadvantage out of the gate because of the need to use SPDIF/AES-EBU/toslink and the potential jitter related to that. I also agree that the analog stage is critical to sound-quality, and that things like circuit design and power supply will affect that greatly (for example, my Dodson DAC has a huge high quality power supply that draws 40W, much of which is dedicated to the analog stage; it also uses 4 DAC chips - 2 per channel - in a fully balanced D-to-A design as well as in the analog stage). But I don't agree that these are the exceptions...these are the prime differentiators between digital source products, and they should be carefully considered when making a choice. -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30530 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
