In Reply to: RE: Looking Back at my Audio Path posted by cawson@onetel.com on September 30, 2024 at 04:35:30:
Just goes to show while we all have similar destinations there are lots of ways to try to get there.
(1) Sticking your DAC with its digital noise into a single chassis with all the rest of your system? Nightmare. Never heard an integrated Streamer / DAC / preamp / amp) that moved me (e.g., Devialet). With digital, isolation, power supplies and clocking are key.
(2) Agree IME, disagree - I have had cables make substantial differences- positive and negative. Get your system components down first, of course, but cables are a real part of the equation.
(3) This one blows my mind. Dissing on Class A and tube amps in favor of class D? I honestly think we have different viewpoints on the absolute sound because this is so fundamentally different from my experience. I have never heard a class D amp come within the same stadium as the top class A or tube amps.
(4) I don't have enough experience here, but in general this one makes some sense. Back in the day having a reclocker between a transport and DAC could yield a positive difference, but not so much today (syncing to an external clock is a different story, but that is technically not between components).
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- RE: My path is apparently the opposite of yours. - Todd Krieger 21:03:32 09/30/24 (2)
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