Its perhaps my Spidey senses ringing but why does it seem that every time @amirm picks a winner out of left field , all sorts weird conspiracies/ theories / doubt casting / nitpicking gets churned up ??
Its perhaps my Spidey senses ringing but why does it seem that every time @amirm picks a winner out of left field , all sorts weird conspiracies/ theories / doubt casting / nitpicking gets churned up ??
I would personally appreciate it if one of the skeptical yet well-to-do members here pick up another Gustard DAC-X26 as soon as possible and have it directly shipped to Amir for corroborative testing.
I would go so far to say that for the 5 top-ranking DACs in the master SINAD graph/chart, we need to have multiple independent sources send Amir the same model device. (I've got to believe that the high number of sales on MassDrop of THX AAA 789 was partially spurred by Amir's review).
I would go so far to say that for the 5 top-ranking DACs in the master SINAD graph/chart, we need to have multiple independent sources send Amir the same model device. (I've got to believe that the high number of sales on MassDrop of THX AAA 789 was partially spurred by Amir's review).
If company can manufacture a single DAC that falls into announced specs I believe they can produce more of them too.
The filter response is zoomed into 20-24kHz. A "gentle" filter from ESS is even gentler than that....
I plan to do a deeper dive into its filters and PLL circuit at a later time.
I ordered one. Let's see what we can do.
What do people think happened here? That they carefully tweaked one unit with all of its itty bitty little surface mount devices? That they sat there and measured the tiny little caps and resistors and swapped them out until they nailed it? Maybe Jimmy Hoffa is buried under their factory, too. The product uses two very expensive DACs and properly implemented them according to the datasheet. That's all. There's probably next to nothing in the case you could tweak to make a "ringer" if you wanted to.
This is orthogonal to the question of the cost of the device, whether it's a knock-off, whether is Chinese product or not, etc.
Then buy one and send it to Amir, problem solved.Hello Amir,
As I have registered a few minutes ago, this is my first post - for a reason you can imagine.
Don't get me wrong. You are doing a GREAT, GREAT job here! Finally, someone who's beating up the "High-End" industry.
Because we can't trust this industry I've changed completely to studio gear (RME and Neumann).
I agree that it is better to have data than no data. And it is fully correct to mention the origin of the device.
But, I also have to agree to other members that this measurement has to be taken - at least - with a grain of salt.
We can't be really sure that this device represents the actual performance of serial production (besides the fact that "one measured unit is no unit measured"). Noone knows for sure how vendor and distributor are connected. And both would profit from increased sales caused by your review.
I also don't like the fact that they asked you to test.
Therefore, the review itself is great. But to include the unit in your charts, comparing it to other devices and giving it an unconditional recommendation? I don't like this idea. So, I would really love to see a second unit which was bought regularly by a random person.
Or maybe you simply have to differentiate between products provided by vendors/distributors and those by members/random buyers in the future.
There is an invisible aspect there where I can watch how fast the analyzer captures a value. The faster it is, the less noise. I think the Chord was the same way.Absolutely top tier performance!
But in terms of your linearity test.... that definitely ISN'T the BEST that you have recorded here.
I believe that the Topping D50 and the Chord 2Cute and I think maybe the DX7S also recorded basically flat to 20 bits.
So you are hiding data from us then?There is an invisible aspect there where I can watch how fast the analyzer captures a value. The faster it is, the less noise. I think the Chord was the same way.