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In Reply to: RE: What do you wanna bet, that it won't make any difference? posted by Bob_C on June 30, 2015 at 21:41:09
is going to lead to endless frustration.
After spending tons of money.
I think that it's a good idea to swap in a decent mid-high-end CDP or a decent turntable as a reference point. This is where Carcass, (and others), get a good perspective on things as their/our DACs are the same as our CDPs.
Besides there are far too many DACs on the market, it's digital file transports, sans DACs, that are rare.
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If one throws into the equation different media types this can be helpful. But there may be pitfalls.
If one's speakers in one's room are too bright this may make some DACs sound hopeless. Switching to a vinyl rig that is itself rolled off may alleviate the problem and the conclusion might be that the problem was the DAC, whereas it might have been elsewhere. It might even have been that the system itself was OK, but the recordings used in the testing had problems.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Tony,
You can always come up with these type of issues but hopefully one uses varied music and is familiar with what they're listening to. Also you would hope that the individual understand their system and its shortcomings before they make drastic decisions. Not every vinyl system has to be rolled off, nor one speakers bright. I would hope that if someone lives with the system they have built one to their taste and can make intelligent choices when adding to it.
Indeed, hopefully one knows what one is doing. However, getting to this point requires a certain amount of listening, studying, and the experience of making mistakes.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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