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Digital Drive: REVIEW: Behringer SRC 2496 DAC Processors by Dynaudio_Rules Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it. |
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Model: SRC 2496 Category: DAC Processors Suggested Retail Price: $249.00 Description: Upsampler/DAC/Anit-Jitter Manufacturer URL: Behringer Manufacturer URL: Behringer
Review by Dynaudio_Rules ( A ) on January 13, 2007 at 13:29:52
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for the SRC 2496
For this review I am using an Adcom GCD700 CDP as the digital front end, the CDP is sitting on Black Diamond Racing Cones and has an upgraded power cord.Digital cables are all AudioQuest VDM1 s/pdif out to the Behringer SRC 2496 AudioQuest Raven AES/EBU out to a Berhinger DEQ 2496 DAC/Digital EQ.
Associated equiptment and cables are:
Anthem Pre-2L pre-amp with Mullard 6922 NOS tubes and an AudioQuest NRG2 power cord.
Aragon 8008BB amp with an NRG2 power cord and Dynaudio Audience 82 speakers.
Analog cables are AudioQuest King Cobra, speaker cables are Audio Quest Gibraltar.
I recieved this product and let it break in for 24 hours, not a long break in but broken in some none the less....but about the same as my other Upsampling piece of equipment.
The unit can upsample to 48, 88.2 and 96 as well as down sample to 32kHz...with the push of a button.
when being fed a digital signal it can use its own internal clock, it can format the out going signal to either s/pdif or aes/ebu and output word length of 16,20 or 24 Bit.
In my case I used 96kHz/24bit upsampling with the internal clock.
The sonics improved with just a short break in time. When I first plugged it in the sound was really dark, with a strong bottom end and highs that seemed to strain to push through.
The next day, the highs and mids had come into their own and the sound stage was wide, wider than I had known or heard in my system. The low-end was still full and round, deep and moved without effort. Like my other Upsampling unit the vocals seemed to appear out of thin air, but with one difference....the vocals had more weight, more body, fuller and more throaty with texture.
The smoothness associated with the de-jitter effect was the same but with a more natural affect than what I had heard from other Upsamping de-jitter boxes. In fact like the sound stage, the naturalness of the sound was more than I had ever heard in my system esp. with a digital front end. The Behringer made my digital music sound more like vinyl than I thought was possible.
As with most digital gear the power cord makes a difference, I tried a AQ NGR cord but I quickly switched back to the stock cord. I am sure with further break in and better power cords both Behringers DEQ and SRC 2496 would yield greater rewards. This combo is a keeper.
Product Weakness: None Product Strengths: Natural sounding, multiple upsampling choices, sound stage, ease of use and total flexibility
Associated Equipment for this Review: Amplifier: see review Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): see review Sources (CDP/Turntable): see review Speakers: see review Cables/Interconnects: see review Music Used (Genre/Selections): Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles (1999), Incognito - Adventures In Black Sunshine (2004) Type of Audition/Review: Product Owner
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Topic - REVIEW: Behringer SRC 2496 DAC Processors - Dynaudio_Rules 13:29:52 01/13/07 ( 28)
- Behringer SRC 2496 DAC Processors - niws 20:40:23 01/18/07 ( 1)
- Re: Behringer SRC 2496 DAC Processors - psemeraro 04:13:44 01/22/07 ( 0)
Why would you choose to upsample to 96 instead of 88.2.... - Aleksunder 07:17:45 01/18/07 ( 13)
- I Just Recently Found Out..... - Todd Krieger 11:10:19 01/26/07 ( 0)
Re: Why would you choose to upsample to 96 instead of 88.2.... - Dynaudio_Rules 16:57:50 01/18/07 ( 8)
- Re: Why would you choose to upsample to 96 instead of 88.2.... - Ted Smith 17:32:09 01/18/07 ( 7)
- Re: Why would you choose to upsample to 96 instead of 88.2.... - Todd Krieger 11:18:22 01/26/07 ( 1)
- Re: Why would you choose to upsample to 96 instead of 88.2.... - Ted Smith 12:52:16 01/26/07 ( 0)
- Re: Why would you choose to upsample to 96 instead of 88.2.... - Aleksunder 18:24:45 01/18/07 ( 3)
- Re: Why would you choose to upsample to 96 instead of 88.2.... - Dynaudio_Rules 19:50:06 01/18/07 ( 2)
- There's a big difference between SSRC and ASRC... - Ted Smith 20:40:40 01/18/07 ( 1)
- Really..... - Dynaudio_Rules 03:40:57 01/19/07 ( 0)
Re: Why would you choose to upsample to 96 instead of 88.2.... - Dynaudio_Rules 18:24:35 01/18/07 ( 0)
Internal clock = asynchronous sample rate convertor - Slider 14:27:49 01/18/07 ( 2)
- Re: Internal clock = asynchronous sample rate convertor - Aleksunder 15:52:41 01/18/07 ( 1)
- He's using it in internal clock mode - Slider 17:00:02 01/18/07 ( 0)
Behringer SRC 2496 DAC Processors - timb5881 10:05:04 01/14/07 ( 6)
- Re: Behringer SRC 2496 DAC Processors - Dynaudio_Rules 10:33:38 01/14/07 ( 5)
- Re: Behringer SRC 2496 DAC Processors - timb5881 20:03:17 01/14/07 ( 3)
- Re: Behringer SRC 2496 DAC Processors - Dynaudio_Rules 05:35:10 01/15/07 ( 2)
- Re: Behringer SRC 2496 DAC Processors - Frank25 13:52:41 01/18/07 ( 1)
- Personally.... - Dynaudio_Rules 08:15:08 01/19/07 ( 0)
- Re: Behringer SRC 2496 DAC Processors - timb5881 20:03:01 01/14/07 ( 0)
And the SRC2496 only costs $129! - sendler 06:19:13 01/14/07 ( 4)
- question for Sendler - Robert F 20:41:03 01/19/07 ( 2)
- Pops - sendler 21:12:42 01/19/07 ( 1)
- Fixed, it was something unrelated to the SRC (nt) - Robert F 06:35:22 01/20/07 ( 0)
Re: And the SRC2496 only costs $129! - TomLarson 11:58:47 01/14/07 ( 0)