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In Reply to: Re: You are right, Ric posted by audiophilect on April 21, 2007 at 12:01:50:
The ultimate DSD playback deck is the one that sounds the best...period. Trying to figure out which DSD capable DAC chip would sound the best by the specs is really silly. There are some that say that you should change DSD to 24/192 and decode for best sound (Alex Peychev, among others). There are those that feel all digital filters used for PCM suck...but if you must use one....then I suppose having more stop band attenuation might be better for lowering noise so you can use less output filtering. Some like the Analog Devices DACs, some like the AKM (Alex again)....some don't like the AKM (Steve Nugent of Empirical). Some like the Burr-Brown....some like the NPC chip set....some make their own DACs (DCS and Meitner, among others).....It all comes down to execution.....a $3.00 8 channel DSD capable DAC chip in a totally tweaked out modded player will sound much better than the "best speced" mono DAC chip in a stock player. I am not against measurements....it's just that the mesasurements most are looking at have very little to do with the resulting sound. Changing one decoupling/filter cap on a DAC chip can make a big difference....let alone the whole output stage, clocks, power supplies, damping, shielding, etc. Once you have played with these things then you know just how complex the whole thing is......in the end, you must trust your ears.
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- specs? who need em?!? he he - Ric Schultz 10:02:34 04/23/07 (0)
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