So John, are you saying that on 44.1 material you prefer a NOS with a good analogue filter set for 22Khz vs an ASRC DAC running internally at 384 or 768 with an appropriate digital filter?
Just curious. That "dirt" you refer to is exactly what I don't like about all of the NOS DAC's I've heard. Of course this doesn't mean ALL NOS DAC's are empirically bad... simply that I personally haven't heard what I consider to be a good one. Interesting about the heat phenomena. The heat must be causing the Johnson noise to rise inside the DAC, no:? - maybe the noise is having a "dithering" effect? regards Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/W7)+Teddy Pardo PSU - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters,VdH Toslink,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93483 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
