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In Reply to: RE: +1 It's a piece of recording studio gear that doesn't belong posted by Sordidman on July 01, 2015 at 09:41:31
Exactly.
It also exposes how clueless many audio magazines are when this DAC was given a rave review by Stereophile and then others. Without out that review Benchmark never enters the home hifi market.
Fast forward, they did the same with the MyTek. Another paint peeler.
To be totally fair, I understand later generations of the Benchmark are far better sounding, but still retain that fatiguing "pro" sound.
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Curious logic....
If a recording is mastered using studio gear, then you would get the closest result to what the mastering engineer is hearing by using the same equipment.
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
Actually no.
RECORDING studios 90% of the time are using powered monitors, so they want hot sources. They also listen at very loud levels.
MASTERING studios often use gear sold in the audiophile market. Two totally different situations.
I used to sell the Yamaha NS10. If they wanted good sound in the studio, nobody would have bought them. They did look very nice though.
Dave
Mytek is not a paint peeler when used in a properly set up system. Setting it up, however, is not particularly easy and requires more technical expertise and patience than many audiophiles possess. The unit also takes many hundreds of hours to burn in before it plays at its best and requires being left on 24/7.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
All that being said, why would anyone want a DAC that requires that much burn in, produces that much heat, and is set to super hot levels by default?
You may want to consider Thorsten's upcoming iFi Pro iDSD. with volume control, DSD256 (if you actually care), discreet output stage, linear power supply, headphone amp etc...that will shame the competition based on the design thread on Head Fi and my experience with the $499 Micro iDSD. The Pro will be $1500
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