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In Reply to: Does a good output stage add much cost to a DAC? posted by Vic D on January 13, 2012 at 14:21:42:
DACs and CD players are complex systems. As such, their constituent elements must work well holistically to obtain the best overall system performance. I suggest that it is incorrect to single one element as determinative. Degradations in the digital processing stage, or in the data conversion stage, or in the analog output stage could result in less than the best sound.Here's an simplistic analogy. Imagine that each system element were a bucket within a bucket brigade, you know, like firefighters once used. The water being passed from bucket to bucket is like the music signal in a digital playback system. It may start out pure. Whether it remains pure through the end of the brigade will depend on whether any of the buckets carrying the water introduce impurities. It makes no difference to the water whether impurities come from a bucket at the beginning of the brigade or from a bucket at the end. All buckets within the brigade must be pure to obtain pure water at the end.
So it is, I suggest, with music in digital playback system. All system elements which can impact the audible purity of the music reproduction must be made audible pure and so all are important. While any one system element could degrade the music, all elements must be audibly pure to cleanly deliver the music through the system.
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Ken Newton
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