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In Reply to: RE: Teac VRDS 10 or 20 posted by Rob80b on July 17, 2007 at 14:13:30
"I was unable to detect any difference between the two dacs."
Haven't heard the Benchmark but gather it's favoured in studios so will probably have a typically 'studio' sound, which is exactly what the TEAC's DAC sounded like to me.
I did compare the TEAC VRDS 10 SE to a Bel Canto DAC2 which is in the same ballpark as the Benchmark cost wise and there was very little difference, but then again the TEAC was in the same price range originally.
After clicking on the link you provided, I'll just add one further comment about what you wrote there;
"If the Benchmark was a mass-produced commercial product it would be $100.00 or less, add that to a basic cheap transport and you would have the same quality of sound from a $2400 player of 10 years ago for less than 10th the price. So in that view, progress has been made, but not in terms of sound quality, which is really not all that bad."
I've told you a million times not to exaggerate. :0)
The TEAC VRDS players weren't exactly mass produced, but besides that you aren't taking into consideration that you heard the Benchmark DAC with the TEAC's VRDS transport which is what will have raised it's performance to the TEAC's own sound quality.
The TEAC's performance as a transport can also be improved significantly by upgrading, and there's no 'basic cheap transport' which could live with the VRDS's qualities in detail retrieval and bass resolution.
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
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