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Thanks. Thought that might be the answer. Don’t want to buy a $4000 Dac do you? Mitch

When you say no, do you mean that you think that if 2 DACs both have sub hearing threshold SINAD, one can still sound better than the other? And would it be the more expensive one that sounded better? You are talking to someone who really wants to believe his $4000 dac sounds better than a...

Thank you for this helpful reply. After 50 years of being a gullible audiophile, I am now moving into the objectivist camp! Mitch

Thanks again for the link. Really useful. I had no idea this existed. I am considering buying the Arya, but in order to get a feel for hiFiMAN headphones I bought the cheaper Sundara which, with EQ gets a golfing panther. I have just downloaded the Sundara graphs, so together with the eq...

Thanks

Sorry to ask, but what does FOMO stand for please?

Thanks. Yes of course, the screen shot.

Why do you use Roon for equalisation rather than the RME DAC please?

Has anyone heard if a new model of the RME FS 2 DAC will be released soon?

Thank you for this objective reply - very helpful. My current dac is a fairly expensive and capable ESS based unit with a valve output stage. Because of my long experience of vinyl, I had convinced myself that I liked the valve sound which the Unison Research dac produced. It may be the...

Thank you for adding this. I apologise for misspelling your name in my original post. This forum and your great reviews have been a ‘game changer’ for me’. I feel I am now much better informed when it comes to the inevitable upgrades. I cannot imagine buying another hi fi product that is not...

Thanks, see my reply to fpitas above, which more or less echoes your view. I have learned a great deal from the exchange of views on this thread, and really enjoyed being part of this forum. I look forward to more of the same. Oh, and incidentally I have solved my dac purchase dilemma - RME...

Thanks, I have now read the other thread. My intuition is that the the principal argument is correct. It does not specifically however address my question of internal power supply architecture being so different between similar sounding DACs. So here is a theory: All DACs that are properly...

May I go back to my original post please. If some manufacturers can make a state of the art dac without an elaborate power supply stage, but others consider the power supply stage essential to creating an equally effective dac - what is the audio science behind that. In terms of electronic...

Thanks, this is my fear. Only by rigorous blind testing and of course equally rigorous measurement can we get to the bottom of this. The measurement can only be done by professionals, but others can do the blind testing, given access to to DACs. I am surprised that that testing is not very...

Yes I agree, but in this case I just wanted to consider SQ. thanks for your post.

Thank you. I am not trying to get opinions on which actual dac to buy, and I am lucky that, within reason, I am not too bothered about how much I pay; however, I do not want to waste money either. My main interest here is to get views on why a manufacturer would go to huge effort to develop a...

Yes, clearly there are many factors that come into play when deciding which one, but in this instance I am only concerned with the relative sound quality, and in particular the need for, or otherwise, of expensive internal power stages. I have not had chance yet to trawl through the large thread...

Yes, that is the ‘league table’ I refer to, and the Mola Mola and topping are at the top. Thanks

True, but for this I am just concerned about the SQ. thank for the link to the relevant thread, I could not find it. As I get more used to the forum I hope my ‘navigation’ will improve.