What is your scientific method for determining that? Please explain how totally transparent devices can influence the stage. Thanks.
maybe i'm wrong
maybe it seems to me
maybe it's subconscious
maybe it's delusional
maybe it's a matter of price.
If you had read my previous posts, you would understand that I was looking for a better one and came back to Topping DX3pro+ twice as optimal.
I can barely hear the difference or not at all, but I do notice the features that annoy me:
DX3 pro+, power restart after each source connection - there was some mismatch, repeated on two copies.
SMSL DO200 ill-considered design I mentioned above.
I also tried Ifi zen one signature,
I have some kind of USB DAC built into an amplifier, I think Burr Brown.
It seems to me, I emphasize, that chips from different manufacturers sound slightly different, especially that I had several DAC devices at home in parallel
The lines on the graphs, although in different frequency ranges, are not identical 1:1
Coming back to the e70 - it's possible that it plays louder because I'm currently using the 2.5V output and hence the illusion of a wider soundstage.
Yes they are transparent, they are similar but not 1:1.
I emphasize that it seems to me that it is 1 : 0,98
In the case of the e70, it was the functionality that suited me.
The question is for You, won't one chip give more even characteristics than using two parallel chips or even multiples of them?