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In Reply to: RE: Herb Reichart - 'an elderly gentleman possessing unclear auditory abilities' posted by pbarach on April 9, 2023 at 11:48:30:
I skimmed Herb's subjective review linked in the Archimago blog piece. Based on your comments I read further on to the measurements section - ouch, they are bad. I originally skipped them because we get used to modern DACs having exemplary measurements.
We've seen performance like this before from Audio Note, IIRC, with a great subjective review. I am OK with poor objective performance being liked as I think it probable that some artifacts are preferable (and as someone who really enjoys vinyl I am under no illusions that it is objectively superior). In assessing whether this DAC is worth $10k we should ask whether the designer has deliberately built in imperfections, developed after much experimentation, to sound preferable or are the imperfections added due to incompetance?
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Follow Ups
- I did not look at the Mojo measurements - Ouch! - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 14:19:15 04/09/23 (10)
- FWIW - I'm not even sure that's the question - mhardy6647 15:54:41 04/09/23 (2)
- RE: FWIW - I'm not even sure that's the question - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 11:20:44 04/10/23 (1)
- "where does that leave things?" De gustibus non est disputandum - mhardy6647 05:29:59 04/12/23 (0)
- RE: I did not look at the Mojo measurements - Ouch! - pbarach 14:26:02 04/09/23 (6)
- John Atkinson remains a class act. Long may he prosper. - John Marks 17:32:20 04/09/23 (5)
- RE: John Atkinson remains a class act. Long may he prosper. - DustyC 09:30:41 04/13/23 (3)
- RE: John Atkinson remains a class act. Long may he prosper. - pbarach 12:23:27 04/13/23 (2)
- RE: John Atkinson remains a class act. Long may he prosper. - John Atkinson 04:15:40 04/14/23 (1)
- Excellent review. Thanks for the link (nt) - DAP 18:27:53 04/14/23 (0)
- RE: John Atkinson remains a class act. Long may he prosper. - John Atkinson 04:16:01 04/11/23 (0)
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