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In Reply to: RE: Revealation, sort of off topic. Huh 40%? posted by A.Wayne on July 25, 2015 at 08:31:34
My attitude has always been that CD is "good enough" and let you have most of the music and a $5k PS audio DAC or Musical Fidelity DAC ca 2002 was fairly good and despite the digital edginess and somewhat unnatural tone and missing textural cues I would have said that excellent digital was better than most of what you could get off a reasonably priced belt drive LP setup - and disregarded high torque options. After having tweaked out the Technics deck I found that the bulk of the dynamic advantage of CD was no longer there, leaving you with just its quiet as an advantage.
I would have rated my digital setup as giving 60% or more of what I get from vinyl. But the SACD player I had was a simple Sony and an Oppo universal players. They did fine but could not feed DSD to a DAC and were middle of the road at best. Now that I have just a simple computer rig to feed DSD to a DAC (a Loki and a borrowed PS Audio DS) then I can say that what CD offered didn't come up quite as high as it seemed before since the DSD playback still didn't get you all the way there yet was far better than the CD.
I think my digital rig for CD is quite nice (Sony battleship 707ES and Musical Fidelity HTP DAC/Pre) and compared well to the TAD 7000 with endless tweaks and the original PS Audio Perfect Wave. It is a bit less detailed and significantly less natural and smooth compared to the PS Audio DS Dac on CD.
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I find PC feeding a DAC not to be as straight forward as some would think , very much software /DAC/cabling / setup dependant , most setups are not as good as a decent CD player , definitely not plug and play, maybe my hearing is defective , but at no time do i see digital at only 40-60% of analog , even if we are talking about 100K worth of analog vs 3K worth of digital CD player ...
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I have to agree on it not being straightforward. Takes quite an effort to clean up your windows parts and security and I use fidelizer software to shut down non-crucial software. Then things are good. That said, a really nice SACD player would come in handy.
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