In Reply to: you need to qualify that last statement posted by bwb on June 13, 2013 at 13:56:48:
So what I'd be curious to know from the "bit perfect is bit perfect" crowd is would you then say that the Teac DAC (assuming it is bit perfect) should sound no different than a DCS Vivaldi DAC with a Vivaldi Clock (assuming that equipment is bit perfect as well)?
Also true for USB cables, CD players, and the rest?
I realize that Archimago tested for frequency response, noise, stereo separation and the like (although not for jitter, best as I could tell). But I believe, whatever one's position, they should have to follow that position to it's logical conclusion.
While I'm not a technical guy at all, after quite a while in this hobby, I can't believe that all of the aforementioned product, assuming it measures the same as in the categories Archimago measured, are all going to sound the same.
Way too many listening experiences involving quite a variety of products, tell me (and many others) otherwise. Moreover, if bit perfect is bit perfect then the implication is that there's a very widespread conspiracy in the digital end of our hobby to sell hobbyists some very expensive snake oil.
I'm not buying that theory and I am buying some of that higher priced digital product.
Joel
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- RE: you need to qualify that last statement - joelha 14:15:28 06/13/13 (3)
- But, what does "bitperfect is bitperfect" **MEAN**?? - Presto 15:10:49 06/13/13 (2)
- RE: But, what does "bitperfect is bitperfect" **MEAN**?? - Tony Lauck 17:49:11 06/13/13 (0)
- RE: But, what does "bitperfect is bitperfect" **MEAN**?? - joelha 16:23:18 06/13/13 (0)