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Re: E-Mu 1212M is the best bang for the buck I've heard

*** I've also stated in the past that the difference between high-end DACs is very slight, and is generally greatly exaggerated in the online reviews and comparisons I've read ***

I think you are probably right.

Based on my experience, the differences between the flagship DACs under identical conditions are very small. I suspect a lot of the differences that we hear are due to other factors (such as differences in jitter, or variances in the output filtering).

But I definitely don't want to turn this into yet another "does jitter really matter and why can't we get rid of it by buffering" thread :-) I think we had a few of those last year!


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