Well, whether it's inferior or superior, only your ears can answer.
It's very subjective and if someone were to suggest it's better or
worse you would naturally hear the difference due to the placebo
effect.
The VSX-26TX is an Elite model I believe - it's safe to say its DAC is
no slouch. Then
Thanks for the replies. Time is at a premium, so unless someone tells
me that the SB's DAC should be much better (emphasis on should), I'm
not going to bother experimenting. I suspect that my sound quality
will be limited by the room and WAF, anyway.
Incidentally, I called Pioneer, and they
jeffmeh;174064 Wrote:
P.S. I run the SB3 into the VSX-26TX through SPDIF, and do not enable
any DSP in the receiver. I do not feel compelled to try running the
SB3's DAC through analog, but if someone can tell me definitively that
the SB3's DAC is considered superior, I would be willing
Eric Carroll;174131 Wrote:
The Pioneer takes any analog input and resamples it into the digital
domain for DSP processing. So, if you go SB3 - analog - VSX you are
D/A converting on the SB3 then A/D and D/A on the VSX. This adds an
extra step of analog/digital conversion which is not
I run my SB into a Pioneer Elite VSX47. There is a different sound
depending on whether I use the analog out or run digital into the AVR.
Neither is clearly superior IMO and I go back and forth in terms of
preference.
--
wdrazek
Mark Lanctot;174149 Wrote:
Note direct/bypass modes are supposed to bypass the DSP, eliminating the
extra conversion.
Mark,
My VSX-49Txi has a DIRECT mode. The manual simply indicates it takes
the shortest path. Nowhere does it say it bypasses the DAC but I
assume this is what it is doing.
Eric Carroll;174166 Wrote:
My VSX-49Txi has a DIRECT mode. The manual simply indicates it takes
the shortest path. Nowhere does it say it bypasses the DAC but I
assume this is what it is doing.
Yeah, I've seen some of the manufacturers be kind of cagey with that
feature. It could be that
Mark Lanctot;174179 Wrote:
There are certain high-end pre/pros that digitize all the time: Lexicon
and (I think) Anthem.
Well the Anthem Statement D2 is my next target upgrade :-) So I just
happen to have the manual right here.
The D2 has a nicely named Anlg-Dir mode, which states A/D
Eric Carroll;174183 Wrote:
Well the Anthem Statement D2 is my next target upgrade :-) So I just
happen to have the manual right here.
The D2 has a nicely named Anlg-Dir mode, which states A/D conversion
and Digital Signal Processing are bypassed and the preamp plays the
traditional role
