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So what do you actually listen for in a DAC?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tenflare" data-source="post: 836520" data-attributes="member: 20064"><p>So I rudely interrupted myself with an unplanned keystroke and posted prematurely. So anyway...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Supplementary to that, is how "holographic" audio sounds through the DAC. Is there depth and layers to the music? Can you imagine the band members' positions on stage when listening? I can tell you that while both are superb, there is a distinct difference between a Nuprime UDSD and an Audio Gd NFB11.28. It's why the Nuprime suffices for my workstation at the office whilst the AG lives with my gaming/AV rig. </p><p></p><p>Speaking of gaming rigs, I often tell people in that circle who don't understand my other hobby that the DAC is like a graphics card. Entry level ones produce the bare minimum to get by, and the highest end ones are able to reproduce an image as close to lifelike as digital gets <strong>provided the output does it justice.</strong> In other words, you don't buy a Nvidia Titan when you only have a CRT monitor, and you don't buy a Benchmark DAC3 to run a pair of Skullcandies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tenflare, post: 836520, member: 20064"] So I rudely interrupted myself with an unplanned keystroke and posted prematurely. So anyway... Supplementary to that, is how "holographic" audio sounds through the DAC. Is there depth and layers to the music? Can you imagine the band members' positions on stage when listening? I can tell you that while both are superb, there is a distinct difference between a Nuprime UDSD and an Audio Gd NFB11.28. It's why the Nuprime suffices for my workstation at the office whilst the AG lives with my gaming/AV rig. Speaking of gaming rigs, I often tell people in that circle who don't understand my other hobby that the DAC is like a graphics card. Entry level ones produce the bare minimum to get by, and the highest end ones are able to reproduce an image as close to lifelike as digital gets [b]provided the output does it justice.[/b] In other words, you don't buy a Nvidia Titan when you only have a CRT monitor, and you don't buy a Benchmark DAC3 to run a pair of Skullcandies. [/QUOTE]
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