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In Reply to: RE: Did they get it all wrong? posted by greg7 on February 09, 2008 at 21:48:51
After trying Mdht Paradiseo tube dac and Shigaraki DAC, ended up with Chord Dac64, which is about as extreme opposite as you get (buffered and retimed, oversampled and filtered and so on). The closest I've come in digital to LP12 presentation (some may disagree whether that's a good thing of course).I found the non-OS approach, by comparison, to be a bit distant and lacking in space, air, vibrancy and the 'presence' I like in listening to chamber music, for example (though not without a certain delicate charm). I'm not decrying your experience, just saying that we don't all agree on what we like. (Hence the hifi industry in all its glory from boom boxes to £2000 mains cables ...)
Actually my Shigaraki transport is the perfect partner to the Chord in many ways, taming its wilder excesses and, together, arriving somwhere in the middle (I think). But I couldn't live with either of the non-OS DACs I tried, just too pedestrian for my tastes.
I'll leave the technical types to decide whether the OS/Nos-OS debate should be reopened. It's clear that's oversampling and filtering is not REQUIRED, if certain design approaches are taken, but not everyone agrees that this approach necessarily delivers optimal digital sound (I for one certainly don't). I understand its appeal in an aesthetic sense (simplicity and minimalism always have an appeal) but for me the proof was in the listening.
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