In Reply to: RE: the blind leading the blind ... posted by TBone on May 8, 2015 at 09:46:16:
Hi and thanks again for the valuable advice and kind invitation
Unfortunately i am quite far away from Toronto ... i am in Norway now
I started from a point ... i have never been dissatisfied by analog
It could have been better or worse but always musically ok
Bad digital is complete shit and i heard it many times.
And very good digital is very very expensive.
And dac plays a fundamental rule in a digital source.
Now i see here for more or less 3000 USD a 2nd hand Berkeley Audio Alpha dac ... i am sure it is an exceptional unit.
If i buy it and place in my system and the sound is not good i can be sure that is not a dac fault.
And then i could put the blame on the transport.
I would like a dac that i can completely trust and that can be a definitive element of the chain.
Maybe 3000 USD for a 2nd hand unit is the price of ammission for getting a dac above suspicion ?
It is also true that it has a high quality digital volume and can work also as line preamp.
Love that dac. And i need a dac.
But 3000 USD .. is a lot of money indeed.
Thanks again for the kind invitation.
Kind regards,
bg
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- RE: the blind leading the blind ... - beppe61 12:47:34 05/08/15 (2)
- RE: the blind leading the blind ... - TBone 13:05:25 05/08/15 (1)
- RE: the blind leading the blind ... - beppe61 22:49:59 05/08/15 (0)