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RE: Effect of age on hearing Dac's differances.

Posted by audioengr (M) on July 15, 2012 at 10:06:11

In Reply to: Effect of age on hearing Dac's differances. posted by Sumflow on July 14, 2012 at 20:55:35:

Hearing acuity depends entirely on two things: 1) your genetics, 2)how well you cared for your eardrums in your lifetime

If you did not wear earplugs while mowing the lawn or worked on a Tarmac or were an artilleryman in the service, then you will probably not hear the HF very well etc..

DAC differences are best heard with no active preamp. Preamps add so much noise, compression and distortion that most differences are masked. I personally use a passive Transformer-based linestage because it has none of these drawbacks.

Also, it is extremely important to audition DACs using a very low jitter digital source, whether it is a computer interface or a CD Transport. What you will find is that a large number of DACs start to sound virtually identical when you do this. This can save you a LOT of money.

Steve N.

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