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As you know currently there are two opposite camps regarding digital sound reproduction: one is the non oversampling filterless camp, the other is the over- and upsampling + filter camp. There are as many followers of the NO as the over- and upsampling dogma's. My experience is that NO DACs sounds less "mechanical". There is less rendering of minute details, but there is altogether a more natural sound (natural timbres). The over- and upsampling DACs are champions in the fields of soundstage and rendering of detail (very high resolution). But they tend to sound somewhat mechanical to my ears. Designers tend also to apply very complex algorithms to the DAC conversion but they forget that natural sound cannot be achieved only by "perfect" software. I myself have an oldskool (1992) Accuphase digital combo that doesn't sound outdated at all. It sounds natural to my ears and I don't feel the urge to replace this by a more sophisticated one with SOTA over- and upsampling algorithm. One thing I have to say though: the EMM Labs gear is designed for SACD, so you have to listen to SACD, reproduced by this gear, before making final statements.

Chris 

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