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RE: AN DAC 3.1/4.1 versus the competition

I recently reviewed a one box player from Audio Note for dagogo.com

The thing with these guys' digital is that it sounds natural even in the entry level models and that can't be said for numerous other guys' top of the line models.

I have not tried an AN with computer based systems at home though my dealer soundhounds.com located in Victoria British Columbia uses a Soolos into an Audio Note Dac 2 or perhaps 4.1 sig (can't remember) and it sounded pretty damn good though it was all connected to a B&W D800 which at $22,000 I would not trade my AN J for let alone an AN E at 1/5 the price. The owner of Soundhounds incidentally also carries Meridian and Ayre's QB9 (which I actually liked as well). Still if AN digital (for CD) has competition to me it comes from Zanden and EMM Labs - but neither of them sell $2kish players - they're in the $20k price range and I'm not convinced they're necessarily better than a DAC 2.1 - at least not if music is the priority.

That said - My understanding was that Audio Note digital is really made for CD replay - so I would be interested in how you get it to handle computer digital inputs and how it converts. My understanding was that the USB was kind of a throw in and made by some other company. So does the AN DAC actually do the conversion the way it does it for a CD?


Edits: 03/05/11
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