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In Reply to: RE: I disagree. posted by jmlpartners on June 09, 2009 at 08:37:41
Hi JML. I get the impression that your modified AN DAC1.2 sounds better than the factory AN DAC3. If it may not be too presumptuous, may I ask whether there was there anything in particular you did? modified? aside from the higher grade receiver chip. TIA
It's not that my 1.2 sounded better; it's that the 3.1x I heard exhibited a quality I cannot abide. After playing for only 30 seconds it went back in its shipping box never to heard from again. That was very unfortunate because I was expecting great things from AN in that price range. It was especially unfortunate for the dealer who acquired all the gear and drove 140 miles to my place. We spent the afternoon comparing transports, digital cables, and LP vs CD. I could not hear a difference between the $3K AN digital cable and my $0.15 wire. The same with the CDT. On the other hand, LPs were a clear winner.
BTW, I hear the same defect in other DACs that omit a proper reconstruction filter.
I vaguely recall that the AN DAC1 used a low pass LC from the DAC Chip to the grid of the output tube, while the AN DAC3, cascaded transformers. Could that matter?
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