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RE: Do you believe in giant killers?

It depends on what are your listening objectives and preferences. Many audiohiles desire a relaxed fatigue-free sound from their digital playback. I think that is because it's precisely in those two areas that digital, even expensive digital, frequently fails.

The good news is that those subjective characteristics can be obtained from digital, and at quite low cost too, via so-called NOS DACs. NOS stands for Non-OverSampling, meaning, without any digital reconstruction-filter. There are, however, certain drawbacks to NOS. Famously, NOS inherently features and in-band response roll-off that's clearly audible, especially with CD sample rate content. That roll-off can be EQ'd back to flat, although this rarely appears to be done in most NOS DACs. The bad news is that if you want both fatigue-free sound and technical correctness it isually will cost big money.

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Ken Newton

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