DAC 'Scam' Vid

Fortunately for snake oil salesmen and women people want to believe they can hear better than bats.

Your post illustrate  well what is a sophism:

(---Some sellers of snake oil claim that their dac makes an extraordinary difference...

---This fact was proven by blind test which debunk them,and placebo effect is always only a delusion,

---Then all those perceiving an audible differences between dac are snake oil peddlers...)

 Did you catch the hole in your thought or is it necessary that i spell it for you ?

To perceive a difference in dac or not  on the same price level or not, the room/system/ ears/brain history and parameters are fundamental...

Period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oh6IkzZhrY

@hifikenobi 

a DAC is more than just the DA conversion, it is also the first pre-pre-amp in your analogue chain

Call me old fashioned, but how the US English language has changed!

I still think of a Digital to Analogue Converter (DAC) as just having the function of turning a digital signal into an analogue equivalent.  As such it is often implemented as a chip, and such chips offer vastly different capabilities which can often be discovered by looking at (what is missing from) their respective specification sheets.

This video is completely accurate. The plain truth. One would hope common sense would make it painfully obvious that beyond a certain point of build quality and parts (P/S in particular), the rest is B.S. Level match a properly working $1k DAC and A/B that with a $20k DAC in the same audio circuit and I’d bet anybody they will NEVER EVER be able to tell which is which. This is not what people that spend stupid money on components like this want to hear, and that is why the scamming will go on and on and on. BTW, did you know that if you place a 28 gram piece of meteorite on top of your DAC it will increase frequency coherancy through harmonic quantum convergence?