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In Reply to: RE: Higher "Rez" Seems to Offer Lower Overall Quality posted by E-Stat on October 11, 2016 at 11:02:09
See, that's exactly what you can't do. You can't really tell if it's the music, or if the DAC itself is not performing as well.
As a matter of fact, my previous DAC was the ARC DAC 8, and that's exactly what it sounded like. The Mytek Brooklyn however sound great regardless of format between Redbook and 96/24. DSD sounds a tiny smidgen better.
So, if I say the Mytek sounds great with all formats, are you going to say it's not playing hi rez well enough?
Do you see the biases we are subject to?
BTW, I don't have an answer to this. I just don't think either position is provable.
Best,
Erik
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So, if I say the Mytek sounds great with all formats, are you going to say it's not playing hi rez well enough?
Define "great". If you cannot tell the difference between a Redbook version of a recording and a truly high resolution version, then I would opine that something is wrong.
Do you see the biases we are subject to?
Not at all. With an open mind, I've compared about half a dozen versions of recordings in LP, Redbook and either 24/96 or 24/192. I observe what I consistently hear.
YMMV.
I believe your observations, but I think we have biases into what we ascribe the results to.We are both agreed on the following:
The ARC DAC 8 plays high rez files better than redbook.
Of the two of us only I have experience with the Mytek, but another Asylum member has agreed with this statement:
The Mytek DAC plays Redbook as well as High rez.
This is not something youy and I agree on, but let's agree to hypothesize this was true so we can get to bias in attribution.
You say the Mytek is clearly faulty. I say the ARC was faulty. :)
I'm just as guilty of bias as anyone else so I'm happy to also yield that point that my attribution is also the result of bias.
My point is, we are each attributing cause/effect in opposite ways, without any real way to resolve the discrepancy at this time.
Best,
ERik
Edits: 10/11/16
The Mytek DAC plays Redbook as well as High rez.
If that's true comparing the same recording using 16/44 vs. a true high resolution format, I would replace it.
My point is, we are each attributing cause/effect in opposite ways, without any real way to resolve the discrepancy at this time.
Ask any engineer who has compared the same feed captured in 16/44 vs 24/96 or 24/192. Like inmate Tony Lauck who has participated in this thread. He is both an engineer and music lover and creates his own recordings.
Ask him if he thinks that the Redbook standard is audibly identical to higher resolutions. :)
I could ask a thousand recording engineers.
What they could not tell me is which of the two issues are true:
1 - DAC's play Hi Rez files better because there's more data.
2 - DAC's play Hi Rez files better because the DAC's are performing differently.
If they listened to the Mytek, they may come to the belief that 2 is correct. If the ARC, that 1.
For me, Mytek has fixed Redbook. You say It's broken Hi Rez. :)
By the way, I find the Mytek superior to the DAC 8 in all formats. That's why I traded.
Best,
Erik
There are others who claim that high resolution offers no audible benefits.I am most certainly not one of them!
To each his own. :)
edit: Just curious. Which recordings have you compared the same content in both 16/44 and 24/96 versions?
Edits: 10/11/16
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