Daverhab,
That was an excellent answer. Based on personal listening and reading various articles on this topic, the power supply quaility and analog circuit have far greater performance influence than the chioce of a particular chip. Shegeki Yamamoto who has a stellar reputation for building SET amplifiers,tube preamps etc. came to the same conclusion when he entered the digital domain. He believes that discrete analog circuits withot negative feedback will sound more musical and natural than most OP amps in general. He also says you must place much effort towards a very high quaility power supply or the result will be unsatisfactory. His first DAC used an ultra simple SS discrete circuit,single end(not push-pull) with a large transformer and power supply. He`s a tube guy for sure but said in this situation SS provided the more simple and pure signal pathway. There is a great review and comparison to his latter tube version on 6 moons. I own the solid state version and it`s superb with my tube amp and tube linestage.
That was an excellent answer. Based on personal listening and reading various articles on this topic, the power supply quaility and analog circuit have far greater performance influence than the chioce of a particular chip. Shegeki Yamamoto who has a stellar reputation for building SET amplifiers,tube preamps etc. came to the same conclusion when he entered the digital domain. He believes that discrete analog circuits withot negative feedback will sound more musical and natural than most OP amps in general. He also says you must place much effort towards a very high quaility power supply or the result will be unsatisfactory. His first DAC used an ultra simple SS discrete circuit,single end(not push-pull) with a large transformer and power supply. He`s a tube guy for sure but said in this situation SS provided the more simple and pure signal pathway. There is a great review and comparison to his latter tube version on 6 moons. I own the solid state version and it`s superb with my tube amp and tube linestage.