In Reply to: It's the combination posted by fmak on July 3, 2012 at 22:08:00:
Saying that these differences are large is typical audiophool bluster. There are no large differences between sources that output the same bits unless there is something wrong with the system setup or components. The differences that exist are small and difficult to reliably confirm. They pale into insignificance compared to differences between good and excellent recordings. IMO money should be spent on the DAC and then on one's record library. After the computer has been made to produce consistent results one's time should be spent listening to music. IMO, if one is an audiophile and not a music lover one is a really big fool.
If reviewers for the major publications established a policy of only reviewing DACs in conjunction with known "bad" sources (e.g. electrically nosy and full of jitter within the outer limits of the appropriate specifications) then after a few years of consistently bad reviews, DAC manufacturers would get the message that they were going to have to build actual digital to analog converters, rather than non-linear noise and distortion couplers such as they are presently seem to be peddling.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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Follow Ups
- audiophool bluster - Tony Lauck 07:22:16 07/04/12 (22)
- you are arguing past each other - bwb 09:24:14 07/04/12 (3)
- RE: you are arguing past each other - AbeCollins 12:21:33 07/04/12 (2)
- Interesting Opinions considering - Dynobot 13:25:24 07/04/12 (1)
- RE: Interesting Opinions considering - AbeCollins 14:31:30 07/04/12 (0)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - fmak 08:41:03 07/04/12 (15)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - Tony Lauck 10:12:26 07/04/12 (14)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - Dynobot 11:10:55 07/04/12 (5)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - fmak 11:39:36 07/04/12 (4)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - Tony Lauck 12:49:37 07/04/12 (3)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - fmak 21:58:09 07/04/12 (2)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - Tony Lauck 06:15:55 07/05/12 (1)
- Computaphool bluster? - fmak 06:30:18 07/05/12 (0)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - fmak 11:06:20 07/04/12 (7)
- RE: audiophool bluster-always - Tony Lauck 12:04:13 07/04/12 (6)
- early reflections - fmak 12:55:55 07/04/12 (5)
- Thanks for the useless non-answer to my simple questions. nt - Tony Lauck 15:14:12 07/04/12 (4)
- Appropriate answers to wrong questions - fmak 22:00:07 07/04/12 (0)
- and you are somehow suprised ???? - bwb 20:34:43 07/04/12 (0)
- LOL and been there done that, wink wink - nt - AbeCollins 20:23:53 07/04/12 (1)
- Applephool always? - fmak 23:19:06 07/04/12 (0)
- large = subjective Re: differences in sound - Dynobot 07:42:32 07/04/12 (1)
- RE: large = subjective Re: differences in sound - Tony Lauck 09:16:38 07/04/12 (0)