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In Reply to: RE: For at least the 100th time, NO posted by ahendler on January 28, 2015 at 07:48:41
Enjoy.
PS, I'm not Tom.
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Depending on how well recorded the music actually is, "16/44.1" through
the Hex is only a bunch of numbers.
I don't think I have an "SACD" that doesn't sound better as a "rip" played
off a Hard Drive through my Hex. That famous DAC chip that many of the
$1500 to $2000 Oversampling DACs or SACD players aren't nearly as resolving sounding,if listening to Acoustic music is a top priority to you.
I would goes as far as to say the Hex has to be the DAC of choice if you
spend most of your time listening to Classical Music.I haven't experienced
any other DAC that is Analog sound as this.
There's really no such thing as "just 16/44.1 (It's more a matter of other DACs are 'serious underachievers' at resolving this bit rate),I can say I'm ok with "16/44.1" being called lossless for the first time
I paid $2500. I have 5000 redbook cd's. I also stream from Tidal, Classics on Line HD and Spotify. By the way classics on line which is provided by Naxos streams Hi-Rez up to 24/192. In streaming a 24/192 file I got over 3000BPS. Sounds great thru my Metrum Hex. If you have not heard the Hex your comment doesn't mean anything. Would you pay $16000 for the Berlely reference dac?
Alan
...but what's the point of huge file sizes and expensive DACs when we're going to be diverting our attention with work on the PC?
The whole download/streaming scene doesn't do it for me.
Again, these are all cost-saving measures, not improvements. Now, archiving and storing is one thing, but superior sound?
The Metrum sounds good because it's retro and overkill (quadruple DACs and no oversampling) not because it came out in 2012 or 2013.
My point was, it is too bad if we have to put up with another round of : "we now have to all start buying DSD DACs in order to hear music at all" because frankly, I'm out of pocket. And how many generations of early adopters are there left?
Actually, the most important thing to my enjoyment of listening to any format digital music has been how resolved it sounds after it's been converted back to analog.
If I am aware of "digital sound contouring" in the sound, the whole process of what happened up to the point of my listening was a fail as
far as I'm concerned. There are any number of ways to process the music up to the point I've spoken of ,but they are all really just a means to get the signal to the step of becoming a listenable format that our ears recognize as analog sound. There has to be DAC at the end of the processing chain or there will be no music to hear.
Everything may work without spending extra $$$ on a Dedicated DAC , but it
comes down to how resolving do you need your music to sound ? There's a line between what the cost of something is in regard to how much value you
will derive from it,that only you can determine.
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