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In the Thread: DAC Recommendations

Post Subject: Emmlabs etcPosted by de charlus on: 7/7/2013

Thanks guys. It's interesting to hear such perspectives, especially upon computer audio; to go by the "audiophile press", high-res computer files are the best thing since that proverbial sliced bread - just like DVDAudio, HDCD, SACD etc were - so much so that the fact that I have yet to hear anything very impressive from any of my acquaintance's systems, I blamed mostly on the systems, rather than the medium, so little did what I was hearing accord with what I was reading. Nonetheless, I suppose that it is necessary to have the medium since this is the direction that things are going, and since I need a DAC anyway, it will require little additional expense.
Rowuk, do you use the Focusrite unit in combination with a DAC, or in place of? It's not clear to me from their site precisely what is what.
I'm glad to hear a recommendation for Emmlabs, since not only can I audition these locally, but I can take them home and do so in the context of my own system. Do you use a transport+DAC, or an integrated unit? If the latter, can one run other sources through the DAC?
Yes, it is interesting to find that earlier pressings of CDs seem to have something that later ones do not; in my mind it has always been a troubled medium, but just as CD failed in any substantial fashion to improve upon vinyl, so the latest and greatest discs fail to improve on Redbook CD. One should, I suppose, simply absorb the lesson that it's wise to allow time for the "warts and all" of every inordinately lauded new technology to present themselves before committing to them wholesale. It's almost laughable that after all this time, it is vinyl and reel-to-reel that we find at the apogee of music reproduction, everything else coming a very distant second.

de Charlus

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