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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: DAC Recommendations

Post Subject: Change a cow into a racehorse...Posted by Stitch on: 7/8/2013

I think, all those - endless - discussions about Digital Playback simply miss the target by a mile. When the CD was launched it was "perfect sound forever".
And what kind of discussions we have had in the last 20 years? Always about hardware. 44.1, 48....96...192...384...always Hardware. And it was (and is) completely useless. All the digital people want to change a fat cow into a racehorse. Or let me say it different, a car discussion, you can change the tires, springs, suspension, engine, racing seats, 10 gears, the overall design to make it faster but the fuel available has 50 octane. That's it. With that gasoline you can't change any car into a sportscar. But from optics you can redesign Ford to something "fast looking". Until you start the engine, 50 octane, probably you can lift it to 55 octane. But who cares...
The old story from Arlo Guthrie, Producer of Pink Floyd, is still valid when he wrote about the facts why he went away from Sony (no re-clocking with their laser burners, dead sounding Cd's, a difference like day and night between that and the master tape, different sounding CD Prototypes from even the same burning session and so on and on..) and was looking for a Manufacturer who knows how to do it right "there is no way to improve it, but 1000 ways to make it worse..."
Find something you can live with, there is no more you can do. Anything else is the same discussion day-in-day-out

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