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| Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok Thanks, I will have a look at them. I tried the Isoacoustic footers but prefer it without. | |
| Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok I prefer my X1 playing files in their native format and resolution. I'm not sure how it would be possible to sound more liquid than it does already! | |
| Kuzma Stabi Reference vs Avid Acutus Thanks for your thoughts. I've actually shelved the idea of replacing the turntable. I think it was just a moment of idle boredom. I have been listening to it quite a lot over the last week after a long period of listening mostly to digital. The K... | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips Resorting to insults now, George? | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips George, you keep saying the same thing, and getting the same response. I'm sure most of us have done this. I used to own a "good" R2R dac. I was not amazed. I prefer my current delta sigma dac. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips The "recording people" are not saying what you think they are saying. I think you have read that Mojo Audio web page without fully understanding it. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips George, all of your quotes are about recording in DSD. They say literally nothing about DACs. They certainly don't support your conjecture that delta sigma chips "do a poor job of decoding PCM". You will need to come up with something else. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips Your quotes are all about DSD vs PCM recordings. What has any of that got to do with delta-sigma or R2R? | |
| LP made from a digital master recording... This is not an analog vs digital discussion, or even a mastering discussion.It is a question of whether a compressed, equalized, distorted recording of a digital file can ever sound better than the digital file itself. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips With bandwidth and sampling limitations, ringing and aliasing artifacts, all digital is only a facsimile of the original. R2R is no better than delta sigma in this respect, and has technical limitations of its own. | |
| LP made from a digital master recording... I love vinyl, but there is no way listening to an LP from a digital master will be better than listening to the digital file. That is, unless your turntable and phono stage are adding so many colourations that you prefer the coloured version to th... | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips With the X1, where do you 'fall' with regards: what is (may be) responsible for your preference of it, since it is more than just a DAC? I dont think any one element can be identified as the reason for my preference for the X1. It is just a ver... | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips If you’re going to refer to correct English, at least spell it correctly. "Queen’s English", not "Queens English".And, as I have said - twice now - I have had a good R2R dac and prefer my Lumin X1 with its ESS chip. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips Didn’t say "all" sunshine, I said the better hi-end ones, now your generalizing, with that "preposterous statement". So the better ones are ... better. Can't argue with that logic. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips The above R2R detractors, obviously have never A/B'ed their ESS delta sigma dacs (listening to PCM) compared to a good discrete R2R dac That is completely incorrect. As I said, I have owned a very good R2R dac and a number of ESS dacs and compa... |