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RE: DAC 2.1 Level C with C-core output transformers

Posted by xaudiomanx (A) on March 5, 2009 at 09:06:23

In Reply to: RE: DAC 2.1 Level C with C-core output transformers posted by DRCope on March 5, 2009 at 07:11:17:

Kind Sir,

My eyes and ears are open. I have done every possible circuit using transformers and the such. They do limit bandwith no questions asked. it just becomes to what extent. I don't care how much experimentation there is. It is in the makeup of the tranny itself as an internal nature of the beast. KNOWN FACT!

As for power supplies and their complexities. That's the whole point. They shouldn't be complex at all. The more thrown into them the more thrown out at you. Garbage in equals garbage out. More garbage in equals more garbage out. Power supplies in their true fashion is a downfall of every piece of audio gear made. It's just to what extent. They don't enhance in any way but what you don't want them to do is degrade either. The best way to hear music if it were possible would be just out of nowhere. But we all know that isn't possible. So what do we do about that? Make everything as simple as possible. Little amounts of everything except current capability. As I said in the last post I do everything to the umteenth multiplier but what I don't do is make anything complex. Regulators and the such is a No No for me but in terms of digital(which I hat but we have to use) it becomes essential so even that has to be done as simple as possible. Hence, simple regulation(Zhaolu DAC and others like it).

I never said the Zhaolu DAC with my power supply will beat a tens of thousand $$$$$ DAC but I do know it won't be far behind either. Again, price per sound. I think maybe you should be the one who opens thy mind to other alternatives instead of going with price should sound better. I was of that thinking as well until I heard what lower priced units can do. As I said, "maybe not better but definitely in there with it!"

As for articles written? Who were they written by? The designers for AN? I have no problem understanding that AN UK is a quality product and isn't for everybody. $5,000 for a pair of transfomers? Now that's nuts! Even Bill Gates would have to agree with that one. That is why they sell their so called lower version products to attract another audience(still cost more than average). I do that in my business and you know what? It works! I corner a higher income bracket of people where money is no object but I have to wait longer to get an approval and also relate to the lower income people where a penny saved is a penny earned. The difference between my lower systems and my higher systems is basically............ Nothing! Sure we cut sokme some of the bells and whistles out but they aren't really needed anyway to get a good job from us. Again, the more in the more tha can go wrong. Some people just want to know they spent more thinking in their own minds, they got more. Especially with audioers. The mind is a wonderful tool to use as a weapon against ones self. Someone wrote an article and it is the Bible what people live by.

I can't change someones thinking nor do I try to. What I can ask is that they be more open minded on my end. I do think if you ever A-Bed with an open mind right next to one another you would have to agree that although there might be differences and some sonic advantages to what you have, but at what expense. But the other is right there with it. The output stage in that DAC is nothing more than a buffer preamp with a low output impedance. You can use it without another active preamp after it. As a matter of fact I think Peter from AN suggests it.

I had a DAC 5.1(X I think it was) here at my house and used it for a good long while. It sounded great but so does my DAC. A friend/tech for AN lent it to me for listening as a possible purchase(I was able to get it for cost) and I was impressed but not to any length that I wanted to buy it for that kind of money.

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