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So what do you actually listen for in a DAC?
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<blockquote data-quote="itscraig" data-source="post: 835293" data-attributes="member: 15626"><p>I differ here,</p><p>A dac is not always capable of resolving busy detail well. Some dac's get muddy here because they cannot process all the information fast enough. A simple pluck of a string is not the same amount of information being processed, and therefore most dacs should be capable of playing that detail and correctly. often very heavy metal where there is purposeful distortion and other instruments that are not supposed to be distorting are great tests for a dac. Even a vinyl system does not always resolve all the signal the same, it depends on Cart and Phono and, and, and...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="itscraig, post: 835293, member: 15626"] I differ here, A dac is not always capable of resolving busy detail well. Some dac's get muddy here because they cannot process all the information fast enough. A simple pluck of a string is not the same amount of information being processed, and therefore most dacs should be capable of playing that detail and correctly. often very heavy metal where there is purposeful distortion and other instruments that are not supposed to be distorting are great tests for a dac. Even a vinyl system does not always resolve all the signal the same, it depends on Cart and Phono and, and, and... [/QUOTE]
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