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In Reply to: WOW! That was crazy. posted by sendler on August 5, 2005 at 04:21:42:
Nah, happens all the time. It seems to happen especially on low cost equipment, because it gets blown up to a degree that people start comparing it to gear well out of it's league and then the fight really starts. I was very careful in my review to focus on how it can improve the listening room, because I'm not saying anyone's going to be trading in their multi-kilobuck players for the Behringer - although they might do well to put the Behringer between their transport and DAC in purely digital mode. Personally I didn't find my single-kilobuck players even close the the Behringer "with EQ" in "my situation", and I'm not shy about saying that - I didn't dislike those players especially, but they never made me listen to music over the long haul.What the pro guys on your board missed was my review was all about the room, the domestic environment all audiophiles have to fight with, and what the Behringer can do for audiophiles that they could never otherwise achieve anywhere near the price. So it took 4 introductory paragraphs to cover that off, and I listen to FM, and I used a burnin disk for the DA[nalog]C - big deal! They spent more time dissing it than reading it. The fact that the DAC is as good as it is was simply a total surprise.
Here's an interesting "professional" review for your cohorts I found yesterday from the archives on the unit's predecessor - click here - it's longer than my review and also focuses on the room, so the shorter attention-spanned won't read it, but this review was written when it was $700 and look at his comical take on "value for money" rating - 200% !!!! Interestingly he rates it for both analog and digital operation, and rates one category (the elusive PRaT) higher via analog than digital - that otta start some conniptions.I hope you manage to garner more interest because I'd be interested to hear how others experience it, but more than that see others find the relief from the room problems that I've found. I'll watch madisound for info - if you post too much about the same equipment on any board, even AA, people get on your case. But I can almost see people's face drop when they hear their same familiar system in their same familiar room sound so much more open - it won't turn your $2k system into a $20k one, but it will get the most out of your $2k one, and in purely digital mode I'm sure it's very much at home in far more expensive systems. I'm sure others will find the DAC a sweetheart as well. I noticed one other fellow on your board also mentioned how the Behringer + internal DAC manages a nice disappearing act even on cheap speakers - I really notice that on my Quads, it's the one category where it far exceeds other players I've had (with the advantage or the room EQ of course) - I doubt I'll be convinced to use the analog in as he does, but I sure have no problems with it's analog out via DAC!!!
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