typical use case would be home theater and I would just add that most center channel speakers are designed to carry dialog and voices so vocals would likely be good too
"clear, open and tonally correct" is good to read and I enjoyed the listening test section of your review the most, even if...
You previously wrote: "A factor remains that my hearing acuity for distortion/small detail is well above average due to extensive training." (June 24, 2020)
Ok, I take you at your word on that. In your listening test for this product you said it sounded fine. You did not write that at...
Lol, anyone can snark. Science? Ok well admit we have no measurements and sometimes no means to readily isolate the filtering going on with different DACs and measure how they may be impacting actual fidelity or frequency response or timing with context that is meaningful, or admit if a person...
Here are the amps chosen by blind AB random selection:
Pyle 1000 Watt Hi-Fi AV Receiver Amplifier
Cambridge Audio AXA35 Integrated Amplifier
Naim Uniti Star Network Streamer, DAC & Amplifier
Marantz PM-10 Reference Integrated Amplifier
Reisong A10 Tube Amplifier
Thought it might be helpful and fun to discuss music you like to use when testing DACs and testing other components and your overall system. I'll start it off:
pop: "Rio" on album "Rio" by Duran Duran
There is a rapid almost random analog synth running throughout the track, kind of a...
I agree that's the trouble, we have specs and measurements that are more or less objective but may not tell you all you need to know, and you can't always trust subjective reviews!
To experiment for those interested, I would try to get the least costly DAC you can afford that uses a different...
not sure what you mean, many people that have compared like some of the multibit/R2R designs over even amazing DS units, and depending on choice of music the differences have not been terribly subtle IMO, when music you've heard for years and have played through numerous DACs suddenly sounds...
Lol, Schitt did put out the "Heresy" unit (forgot what it is at the moment, a headphone amp w/o a discrete output stage maybe?) so I am sure they are thinking about all this kind of stuff when they are designing and planning
yes this is accurate IMO, noise shaping is different in Multibit/R2R vs DS and some believe less noise shaping is more accurate to the performance that was recorded but along same lines, very different filtering is often deployed between the 2 topologies and can sometimes have a big impact...
I have had a lot of the same experiences as you, and along those lines I recently dusted off an old cassette tape I hadn't heard in maybe 25-30 years but my tape players are all wildly out of spec so I picked up a very cheap new portable cassette player at a local store (no noise reduction...
tell us more about your experience with your old Sony TDA for example, I would be interested, some of the early DACs in CD players were great and some were not, you bring up a good example of a different sounding DAC, I've built outboard DACs using R2R sections from older CD players and have had...
no quarrel with your testing methods at all, just wanted to note that there are various filters at play in various DACs especially where the filtering is more bespoke whether through analog electronics or DSP programming (a lot of which is proprietary), with analog filtering we can readily...
I didn't mean to criticize any of our measurements or standards, just that we have standard measurements and probably more measurements will be developed, the state of the art is a moving target, in my own testing some, not all, DACs are better at reproducing voices and there is less of a sense...
wow, I guess someone does not like multibit and R2R DACs and can't fathom why anyone else would, enjoy your DACs, and to answer your question: yes and yes, and perhaps you should audition some different DACs with music you know very well and see for yourself
the standard measurements we use are actually pretty basic and don't represent all the sound qualities exhibited by equipment designed to play music, there is a false assumption that some have about any (or all) DACs, that they are perfectly replaying the music from a digital recording, very few...