I am hoping that the experts on this forum can help me with this.
It is a commonly held belief that digital audio is much better today then it used to be. But what exactly does that mean?
I have a 1990s DAC - Aragon D2A MkII - that I still use today. I think it sounds great. I took it over to my local audio tech to have him repair a broken rca inut and he put it on the bench and after fixing it he measured it. I was silly not to have asked him for the measurements but he told me that the technical measurements were exemplary - on par with any current DAC/CD player he had measured.
So help me out here - is it possible that this old DAC can still sound as good as what is available today?
In other words - if my 1990 DAC measured the same as a 2018 DAC would they basically sound the same?
It is a commonly held belief that digital audio is much better today then it used to be. But what exactly does that mean?
I have a 1990s DAC - Aragon D2A MkII - that I still use today. I think it sounds great. I took it over to my local audio tech to have him repair a broken rca inut and he put it on the bench and after fixing it he measured it. I was silly not to have asked him for the measurements but he told me that the technical measurements were exemplary - on par with any current DAC/CD player he had measured.
So help me out here - is it possible that this old DAC can still sound as good as what is available today?
In other words - if my 1990 DAC measured the same as a 2018 DAC would they basically sound the same?