cliveb wrote: > Be careful before you dismiss Michael's inability to hear a difference > as being down to age. > You say you hear clear differences between DACs, but have you made that > comparison blind? Until you've done that, the results of your comparison > really don't count. > > Let me pass on a personal anecdote. Some years ago I borrowed a Lucid > DAC to compare it against my CD player. The Lucid was (at the time) a > well-regarded 24/96 bitstream converter. My CD player had a Philips > TDA1541 (16/44 multibit) DAC. Ignoring the lunatic NOS designs, it's > difficult to find two less similar DAC topologies, so you'd expect them > to sound very different. And indeed, after level matching using the > Lucid's output level trimmers, I heard a clear difference - the Lucid > seemed a bit more detailed. But when I got my wife to run a blind test > by flipping a coin and switching between them, I scored a hit rate of > precisely 50%. *The moral of this story is clear: when you know what > you're listening to, you can't trust that what you hear is only due to > the sound they make*.
The moral of the story is - do a proper blind test! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jkeny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35192 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103776 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
