darrenyeats wrote: > There's probably a lot of truth to that. But sometimes you do get > something measurable for your money. The dCS Vivaldi for example (yours > for £80k), see figures 16 and 17 especially. > > http://www.stereophile.com/content/dcs-vivaldi-digital-playback-system-measurements > > Nothing else I've seen measures like that for harmonic and IM > distortion! Putting aside audibility for a moment, you have to admire > the engineering achievement. > Darren
I do admire the engineering involved and the what has been achieved on an oscilloscope's screen and the test bench but I would not (provided of course that I could, which I can't) pay over $100,000 for a an SACD player and DAC. However great the vivaldi may sound I'm fairly certain that there is another SACD player and DAC combo costing much less with 99% (if one believes in such rankings) of the great sound. I hope that there are some people out there willing to spend the money on state of the art and boundary stretching equipment since the technology used in sota equipment usually filters down to the level of affordable equipment. Sometimes it just takes a while and other times it just cannot be made less expensive. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101084
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