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In Reply to: RE: DAC USB conundrum posted by dcolver on October 23, 2009 at 11:01:27
My original question wasn't so much aimed at the technicalities of USB, but at understanding why the Berkeley Alpha is so admired when it hasn't got the things that recent articles seem to rate as important innovations.
- One is clock-controlled USB, as discussed
- Another I now add is an apodising filter, which the Ayre has and so has Meridian, which also sounds like a Good Thing when described in the magazines.
The answer I was fishing for was something along the lines of
- the Berkeley reclocks everything internally so it's immune to the vagaries of itss inputs
- the Berkeley has an xyz filter with [list of magic properties].
Since the Ayre has limited distribution in the UK, and the Berkeley has none, one can't audition these things at a dealer. I will resort to ordering one of each of them so I can make the comparison at my leisure, since my long beloved Levinson 39 has expired. Luckily these things are inexpensive compared with prices for equivalent equipment a decade ago.
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