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Todd, our experiences seem to point diametrically opposite

Posted by John C. - Aussie on December 10, 2010 at 21:06:11:
At least our conclusions do. Not trying to create an argument as each of us can only come to conclusions based on our experiences.

In my case I've finally achieved first class reproduction from digital, something which took a lot of time and money. The first Eureka moment was when David Schulte of The Upgrade Company modded the Esoteric UX-1 LE and I suspect his mod aimed at reducing the RF you refer to. Anyway his mod was so good I was able to sell the G-Os Esoteric masterclock as after his mod it made absolutely no audio improvement (and it did before the mod). Please note I had a good experience with DS but I have seen posts where this was not always the case.

The next Eureka moment was the purchase of Sennheiser HD800 headphones, items I'm generally not comfortable about, but the reproduction to the Sennies via the Nugent modded Benchmark is so good I'll wear them. Note that at this stage the digital feed was ex the modded Esoteric - I have posted about this before,

The final Eureka has been the ripping of over 6000 CDs (a ghastly job BTW) into a two twin 2 TB HDDS in a Meridian Sooloos sytem. The reproduction via the Sennies is as great (in terms of clarity, lack of distortion, soundstaging, reproduction of nuances and general musicality) as via the Esoteric.

So my experience is that progress has been made with digital reproduction and obviously differs from yours. We are most likely both correct in the context of our experiences, although this must make for confusing reading by others!!

John