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RE: Teac VRDS 10 or 20

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In Reply to: RE: Teac VRDS 10 or 20 posted by chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com on July 17, 2007 at 15:18:46

"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. "
What I meant was that delivering a good DAC at a reasonable price, comparable to higher end units from 10-15 years ago for $2400+, is not out of the realm of mass production.
Disassemble a VRDS-20, and no it was not mass produced, in fact you can see it was labour intensive and a great sounding unit at that. Which, I have recently found, is still on par or better with todays so called breakthroughs IMHO.
Robert

Edits: 07/17/07

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