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And the new dac appears superb, in both features and in improved sound v. the DAC1
http://everythingaudionetwork.blogspot.se/2012/10/exclusive-first-review-benchmark-media.html
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The new Prism Lyra 1 DAC costs only $200 more than the new Benchmark..... If the Lyra 1 has a sonic semblance to the DA-2, it would likely upstage the new Benchmark product.
I'd suggest anyone who is interested in either product to audition both, if you can.
That's clearly a case of "premature speculation".
I didn't know that it came in any other flavors!
At maturity speculation becomes observation...
Rick
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with asrc!
Yep, and there's a good reason why Benchmark and other manufacturers use ASRC.
Do you know what that reason is?
> Yep, and there's a good reason why Benchmark and other manufacturers use ASRC.
>
> Do you know what that reason is?
I thought the idea was that it renders jitter pretty much irrelevant. Although the mysterious "NWAVGUY" claims it's not necessary, at least in the context of a USB DAC such as his Objective DAC (ODAC).
"Yep, and there's a good reason why Benchmark and other manufacturers use ASRC.
Do you know what that reason is?"
Marketing gimmickry....... A rave review of the dCS Purcell DAC led the industry into the false belief that ASRC was a magic bullet.
Technically speaking, for real-time audio playback, there was never a solid explanation justifying its use. (A lot of flawed explanations have been brought forth, which can be easily shot down.) The only thing it does in such application is transform jitter into audible noise, which becomes embedded into the audio signal. (If ASRC took in two numerically equivalent audio signals, the output signals would no longer be numerically equivalent.) Click link for explanation of how this occurs.
If nothing else, several manufacturers in recent time have come to the realization that ASRC didn't really enhance performance (Bel Canto and Cambridge Audio, for example), and no longer use it in their latest products.
was a proper good sounding upsampler, not your chip based asrc.
Yes, and I don't like them.
I would bet the asrc is a configuration option and can be disabled. I would also bet that it would not add to sound quality, since it is unlikely to be as effective as the much higher sampling rate ARSC already built into the SABRE chip.
Time will tell, possibly after several firmware and FPGA revisions.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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