roll - gybe;265278 Wrote: > So how many people have purchased a $1000+ DAC with a refund policy, A/B > tested it, and sent it back? A few years ago I bought a Lucid DA9624 on sale or return. It was about £650 - approx $1100 at the exchange rates of the day. (This was before the Benchmark DAC1 had appeared).
It was level-matched and compared to my Micro-Seiki CD-M100 (a Japanese "statement" CD player from 1990, basically a heavily breathed-on Marantz CD94). On sighted listening, I thought the Lucid had slightly more detail. But then I did a blind comparison and after 10 trials had scored 5/10. In other words, the two DACs were audibly indistinguishable to me in my system. This experiment was something of an eye-opener for me. The Lucid was returned for a refund, of course. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42961
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