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Very well said. And in these facts lies the whole meaning and scope of High Fidelity: faithfully record the Art of the performers and be able to enjoy it again without hindrance.

Always "Yes, but". The but is : I'm awaiting more channels (3 operational at the time of writing) and identical speakers... ... and I'm still in search of the ideal multichannel digital player and preamplifier for conveniance and absolute audio performance.

To build on your building, one can read this very... balanced articles published by Rod Elliot on his website, as well as the reference articles in their respective bibliographies, which all teach about the challenges in designing proper balanced output and input stages and tackle some issues...

It's more common than you think and it doesn't have to be expensive. But we must not confuse the goal with the means. As Bruno Putzeys once said : "The Road to Hell: Specify the Design, Accept the Performance. The Road to Heaven: Specify the Performance, Accept the Design. "

It can. It all depends on the skills of the designer.

That's the single most important statement in this thread so far. I fully concur with it. The importance of that statement couldn't be stressed enough. When one is accustomed to classical music listened to a concert venue, setting the level at home on the hifi become a second nature. Some...

03/24/2024 update : new informations about some signal processes.

Bang on the same genre : Also :

@oOBurrowsOo, The Dynaudio loudspeakers you refer to (although you didn't mentioned the specific model out of the Evoke range) are inefficient to very inefficient loudspeakers, their sensitivity being in the 84 to 88 dB SPL/1 W/1 m depending on the specific model. You didn't specify the size...

03/22/2024 update : new informations about some signal processes.

03/21/2024 update : correction of an error about the Denon UDP 2012UD (2nd harmonic at -99 dB instead of -89 dB, hence better THD number) and news informations about some digital signal processes.

I update the files this March 2nd, 2024 with 4 new tests (see first post) from old issues. Tests in 16 bits : Accuphase DC-330 Accuphase DP-75V dCS Verdi+Elgar plus Sony DTC-ZA5ES More importantly, I have finally found in an old issue a statement about the nominal level at which the test are...

I just reply to your thread with some hints about this player : https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/magnetar-udp800-thoughts.42266/post-1902222

The Magnetar brand seems to be affiliated to Reavon, which sell less costly universal integrated players/streamers/DACs : https://magnetar-audio.store/fr/ https://reavon.store/fr/ I was once interested in the latter, for I am in search of a true multichannel universal (disc and computer...

By the way, just for the education of those interrested in this historical developpement, there is a great technical discussion about the first Philips DAC in this video posted on the UK AES channel :