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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: DAC Recommendations
Post Subject: DSD streamPosted by Romy the Cat on: 7/8/2013
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 Stitch wrote:
Well, I made an interesting observation by accident. I didn't know those Emmlab unit (later I read that Mr. Terrific [Tin] made the distribution in USA, but later he switched to something else, which is even more ultra terrific...), went into a Demo with total unknown units and was amazed about the quality of digital Playback. It was a good Demo generally...Some time later I listened to it in 2 different, very expensive Systems (Spectral...Magico) and it was horrible, absolutely awful. When I wouldn't had the experience before, I would have deleted it in my memory. Anyway, I THINK, the unit is passive and what you hear is depending on the quality of the connected System / Preamp. Maybe more than other units it will give different results based on that. My main CD's are from 80's /early 90's, some early Mercury Living Presence CD's...and that unit gives me better results than all the stuff I had before.
But digital discussions are endless ... but Meitner didn't walk the path the other 95% did, so it is probably worth a try. 
  
Interesting, I also can recall that each time I have hear demo with Emmlab it was always in context of those “special” TAS-approved playbacks and in context of the “special” TAS-brained people. From I remember by memory Emmlab converts anything into DSD stream and does not allow to play native PCM. I feel that it is not good. I do not know if it was the feature of the units at that time as if was changed as they made a few new models from then. Meitner also has some kind of baby Emmlab unit under different company names. Ironically in the past he was able to make smaller and less expensive unit to sound as good or better then complex and expensive, I do not know if it is the case now.

With all my detest of the SACD bushtit I know that they sometimes in past reinstated the original 4-bit DSD (instead of 1-bit consumer crap), which shall be fantastic (and I did hear in it 1999 before CACD become available – it was spectacular!). I do not think that the 4-bit DSD is valuable, unless you work in recording industry and can steal some. Nevertheless, I think that since now more or mode downloadable SDS become available I think the concept of “universal” all-trades DAC shall include an ability to input and output at least 1-bit DSD stream. You still not going to have any good music to play on it for the next 500 years but you at least will be “ready”.

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