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In Reply to: RE: Does a good output stage add much cost to a DAC? posted by AbeCollins on January 15, 2012 at 01:35:42:
"their analog stages are superb"
My DAC's older than your DAC! Well, maybe, it's twenty-something. And it too sounds good to me, that's why I still use it. However I don't have a clue how superb it's analog chunk is. Or it's digital part or power supply... I've never measured their performance or done any research to evaluate them. It's a black box, literally and I was lucky to get that. It's a twenty-something year old EAD and one's with a black faceplate had just become available when I ordered mine, gold would have looked sooo out of place in my entertainment closet!
The only thing I HAVE measured on it is emissions and they're terrible. It was interfering with TV reception so I dragged home a Spectrum figuring I'd patch it up over the weekend. Well, it was hopeless, everything was wrong with it. It's the only thing I've ever seen that didn't have an especially bad point or two that you could work on and substantially improve matters. So we just turned it off when the tele was on. While I still enjoy it, this may be it's last year as higher resolution beckons...
But unless I'm psychic or measure things or do structured testing I don't know the relative performance of various areas in a design since they lie inside my resolution boundary as a user. However did you do it? How do you know that you those analog stages were especially good?
Abe, I'm not picking on you (much) it's just that you are a very logical person who might actually contemplate the implications of the question.
Regards, Rick
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