Hey ASR folks do not get upset if I do not believe in everything that is written here. DACs sound different to me and I like to foolishly spend my money on the DAC that sounds the best to me. However, I do come here for other info such as the following thread that helped me resolve a big DAC problem today. So, thanks for that thread.
The Benchmark DAC3 webpages explain the concept of intersample overs and how they can lead to distortion when upsampling from 44.1 or 48 kHz to higher rates. I get that, and I think I understand the math behind it. What I’m less clear about is the solution. Benchmark talks of designing in...
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Some history: I was the OP on a four year old thread about the Chinese LKS MH-DA004 DAC. It achieved an underground buzz. The open architecture of its ...
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BTW - I owned the following DACs in the last 2 years and compared them mostly with a Topping pre90 preamp or a Benchmark LA4 preamp. A lot of these are the darlings of the ASR measurements.
- Gustard X26 Pro
- Topping D90SE
- Audio Mirror Tubadour III SE
- Matrix Audio Mini-I 3 Pro
- Benchmark DAC3B
- Musetec 005