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In Reply to: RE: Just and addendum ... about digital filters discussions. posted by pictureguy on May 8, 2015 at 00:47:10:
Hi and thanks a lot for the very valuable advice.
I am not at all an expert but i think that to design a good sounding digital filter after all these years should be not that difficult.
If we agree that the processing carried-out in the digital filters is what makes or breaks the sound all other things become immediately secondary. Important of course but secondary.
Dac chip used, power supply, output stages, and so on ...
Even the Upsampling per se could be not a bad thing if this allows for the use of much better sounding analog filters.
For instance there is now a big interest for the new TOTL dac from Schiit Audio.
Even the designer puts the focus mainly on the actual dac chip used and its excellent performances.
What instead if the real secret of the dac excellent sound is in the actual filter used ?Moreover why not build dacs with the possibility to update the firmware (and so also the digital filter) like it is normally done with computer bios ?
In this way the differences introduced by different digital filtes would be extremely evident and it would be possible to update the filter when something better sounding comes available.
A good dac in this way could become a dac for life (an idea that i like very much indeed, like for cars. I do not like at all to change something still working).
I cannot understand these doubts after 30 years of digital sound.So i decided to stop buying them owning now:
1) Cambridge Audio Dacmagic and Dac 3
2) Apogee Rosetta 200 and MiniDac
3) Benchmark Dac 1 (1st edition)
4) EAD Ovation (pre processor)
5) Hegel HD11
6) Abrahamsen dac (the smaller one)
and a bunch of other chinese things with 1543, es9023 ... etc.
I will cool down a little.Still i am very optimistic.
Sooner or later there will be a cheap and good sounding dac. I am sure of this. Completely.
Thanks a lot again.
Kind regards,
bg
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- RE: Just and addendum ... about digital filters discussions. - beppe61 01:22:19 05/08/15 (2)
- RE: Just and addendum ... about digital filters discussions. - pictureguy 08:36:01 05/08/15 (1)
- RE: Just and addendum ... about digital filters discussions. - beppe61 09:35:16 05/08/15 (0)
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