Stop it you two. This forum is not about battle of words.
We're very curious, let's hear about the audio significance of what you posited about rising IM with the MiniDSP.there is so far an absence of curiosity about whether these measurements have any significance in the real world.
Opus, if someone wishes to read, take part in or contribute to this thread, your endless ridiculous total content free replies don't help at all. If this is all you have to contribute you should feel incompetently informed to post.Demonstrate your curiosity and you might receive a response. Until then, no cigar
Bingo. That is all that is needed. Isn't it funny how ear trusting audiophiles seem to veer away from using their ears to determine such stuff? They argue, imagine, and pontificate yet don't want to simply listen and see if they hear a difference without knowing how they expect the answer to turn out first.How hard would it be to run a bypass test if one believes this is audible?
Source>>minidsp & direct to pre/amp inputs 1 & 2. Check voltage output between switching. Match.
See if "grass" is audible. Or just smoke related.
If one has a hypothesis, the scientific method tells us it first needs to be a falsifiable one, then if so we then proceed to test it. Looks like your hypothesis here is 'Opus has nothing more to contribute other than banter with AJ'. Are you going to test that hypothesis?
Others already replied before I got to this, but I'll add just bit for clarity:Such a criteria would establish nothing beyond which DAC suits one person's personal preference, and then under a very specific set of recording and playback chain circumstances. How, exactly would you propose to determine this subjective lack of audible coloration?
O ... If passing a signal through A/D then D/A comes out indistinguishable from the source in a proper (level-matched and blind) test, both the A/D and the D/A are known to be transparent. And then we can use that device's A/D to assess other products that provide only the D/A portion. ...
Others already replied before I got to this, but I'll add just bit for clarity:
--Ethan
Call me a purist or any other name in the book, but I absolutely do not want any extra d-a, a-d, d-a conversions in my system. They cannot possibly benefit the sound. At best, they are neutral, but I do not want to waste my time determining whether they are or are not. It is all to easy to just avoid them entirely. One final d-a will do for me, thank you.
I'll add that these days transparent converters are common and affordable. For me this is about being a smart consumer: Why spend $1,000 or more for an outboard D/A when a $50 converter (or the converter you already have in your Blu-ray player or laptop) is transparent?
Your method of comparison lacks any controls and is thus error prone.it certainly doesn't have the sonic chops to replace ANY decent CD player or transport/dac I've ever used, even @192, but for my personal HT setup, it serves my expectations well. Along with that BRP, I have 3 other CD players at present ... yet, only one isn't overly opaque (imparting its own sonic character on every CD played).
I'm here to understand why that is so...
Great, well there's your reasonable explanation for all those disc player "sounds"I can live with being "error prone", being fully accountable for any such "errors" I may incur within any decision making process ...