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In Reply to: Re: Benchmark Dac-1 USB posted by Mister Pig on March 21, 2007 at 16:22:47:
I suggest you plug your PC and DAC1 to the power conditioner together. Power noise may go through PC to DAC1. Just my guess. My PC source improved significant when I power it through the same balanced power supply.Did you try fit digital coaxial from DVP to drive DAC1. Any difference?
Follow Ups:
All three pieces, PC,DAC, and external hard drive were run through the power conditioner.Yes I used the coax output of the Phillips DVP642 to drive the DAC1. It sounded exactly the sam as the PC. Which is consistent with what Benchmark has measured in their facilities.
It is strange, my DAC1 sound better than my CDP which is 2.5 times more expensive. I don't know why it sound the same as DVP in your environment. May be there are other factor in the audio chain which cannot let DAC1 perform its best.
DAC 1USB with Computer front end sounds exactly the same as DAC1 USB with Phillips DVP642 as the transport.Benchmark states that this will be the case with a good DVD player as a transport. They can be "bit transparent" also.
I am not comparing either combo against a standalone CD player.
Regards,
Mister Pig
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