Killingbeans
Major Contributor
Why do some of you think there are so many different chips on the market, and power supplies, and filters, and R2R DACs, if a DAC doesn't affect the sound of one's stack?
That's the thing. We have no doubt that it affects the sound of your stack. Only, we have good reason to suspect that it solely does so through the power of suggestion.
Same experience. Different cause.
Clocks, isolation of outputs, quality of circuit boards, power supplies all play a part in the quality of the product and therefore quality of sound.
An improvement only affects the "quality of sound" if it makes changes with an amplitude that human hearing can detect.
At some point only measuring instruments can appreciate the difference. Human hearing does not have infinite capabilities. Especially not when you factor in masking effects.
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