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In Reply to: RE: The Resonessence Labs Mirus DAC posted by soundchekk on March 04, 2015 at 00:18:50
I commented to a friend yesterday that I expected a negative response to my review from you. At least you are consistent.
If one visits the Resonessence site, they will see a huge amount of information describing the design of their DAC. I think I did a pretty good job condensing all of this. I also asked Resonessence to discuss their power supply,clock design, and SD card software; information you won't find on their site.
For years you have been stating that a well designed USB DAC would not be subject to computer software, OS system, and USB cable effects. Here is a DAC that seems to be well designed in terms of isolation. Anyone with an SD card can arrive at their own conclusions and not depend on mine. You conveniently glossed over this information in my review.
The fact that you failed to mention this illuminates your true agenda in posting this response.
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Steve, you must have the patience of a saint. Even I have grown utterly tired of soundchekk's predictable responses. Enough already.
He is an expert on everything, anything more than $250 is a rip off, everything is a scam, hi-rez is a waste of money, blah blah.
And the very BEST part, Steve? Comments about products that he has NEVER heard and will NEVER hear.
Steve, very thorough work on the review btw.
"At least you are consistent."
Yep. You're absolutely right that you can't expect a different response!
And yes. For sure - you'll get a response.
Obviously, you keep doing the same low quality (technically) - somewhat entertaining stuff over and over again.
When it comes to the source and its impact:I almost expected to get you hooked up on that one.
I very well looked at these points, because it was mentiond.You kept it rather vague as I recall it correctly.
The only time you were precise, as far I remember, when stating that the iFi didn't make any difference at all. Hmmh.
Fmak? mentioned ifi USB making things even worse.
Others claim iFi USB it improves things.
Others claim you need a better power supply for iFI USB to get it performing really well.
It's a pick and choose situation. That's what people do best over here.That iFi story IMO doesn't say much about the overall quality of the USB interface. We discussed that earlier.
I thought it's not worth going into it. (I guess you read my comment about "no intention to disect your review").
One more:You're using all kind of system tweaks, mains power filters/optimizers, you name it.
By doing so you change real world scenarios. That'll make any of your
reviews somewhat useless.
I also can't remember that you compared different OS, OS settings & optimizations and audio software. Perhaps I missed that.You could also have taken away your linear PC supply to see what happens then.
Why don't you take that device and run all kind of source related tests against a DAC, any DAC. And don't forget to take away your power filters etc..
Challenges in that area should easily be covered by a $5K DAC.
And then you run the "same" tests against every DAC you'll get in your hands. Also against your Crimson!
And then you prepare a ranking.And then I want to hear:
Jplay - No impact
Fidelizer - No impact
KS/Wasapi - No imapct
Audirvana/Amarra - No impact
Linear ATX PS - No impact
$5 USB cable - No impact
SOTM USB - No impact
...And then we start talking.
Good luck.
Edits: 03/04/15
The problem with getting the dac to do all the reclocking and cleaning up for you is that you are then listening to the dac designers compromises. Sort of like the anti alias filter on a digital camera which is supposed to help, but removes the sharpness of the picture.
http://mqnplayer.blogspot.co.uk/
I don't remember ever stating that the iFi PowerUSB did not make a difference. That's not what I said in my review.
After looking at all of your requests-demands, I think it is best if we don't start talking.
Yep. No problem.
I was just trying to support you a little.
And I wanted to clarify my position, since you were attacking me.
To present quality stuff it takes more then writing 50 lines of prose.
Yep. It's hard work to get technical stuff analyzed properly. The write-up is the easy part.
A real well (technically) done post/review gets close to a scientific work.
I guess you've done something like that - scientific work - in the past.
Obviusoly not in the audio arena.
You should know what it means and requires.
If you look at HeadFi and elsewhere you'll find reviews that are IMO ten times better then the stuff that you provide. Even the Stereophile reviews are at a different level.
Good luck.
"If you look at HeadFi and elsewhere you'll find reviews that are IMO ten times better then the stuff that you provide. "
Shows how little you actually know about the subject of reviewing.
HP is probably rolling over in his grave!!!
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