Interesting test/article. This Steven Nudget(Emperica Audio) coming from Intel and silicon valley has knowledge about dac`s, circuits, opamps. No doubt.
Same with the engineers at BenchmarkMedia. They are on an collision course, maybe. They both want to engineer good dac`s, but Steven Nudget goes for uppsampling on the computer and Benchmark engineers goes for uppsampling natively in their dac`s. Benchmark DA1 USB does completely seperate the data from the clock. No audible jitter. The digital part of the convert uppsamples to 110khz and the analog part downsamples to an audible range. Dont know the samplerate ? http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=digital&n=94575 Benchmark recommends to remove all dsp plugins and other plugins from foobar to eliminate loss in word lengt- bith depth - sample rate. If our goal is to hear as exact as we can, what the producer engineers produced on the cd. Bitperfect. They clame that the Benchmark DAC1 USB dont have any jitter at all and the audio will sound the same coming from harddrive, cd player, dvd player connected to Benchmark DAC1 USB. So why use software to uppsample in the computer. Using CPU and RAM resources when the Benchmark do it so well. http://extra.benchmarkmedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Or maybe the Empirical Audios software uppsampling on the computer is the best way ? The best way to decide would be to borrow products from Slim Devides, Benchmark, Empirical and have our own test in oour own audio set up. But that`s not easy to succed. Therefore it is fun and useful to read reviews and forums. -- eiret ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eiret's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11521 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37557 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
