Tbh, even comparing a NOS vs an OS dac is problematic for me. Muddying the waters further with a lossy dsd conversion baffles me. And in the end those two, dramatically different approaches, sound almost indistinguishable? Weird. Why not compare a true NOS dac vs the NOS digital filter on the AK4499 as already suggested? At least the FR will be similar. Why over complicate by bringing unnecessary variables?
@Evenharmonics Its ok if you want to sound like an incessant, yet broken record (ironic metaphor?), constantly on the attack, but I would appreciate it if you didn't try and leverage my comments as well, in effect putting words in my mouth.
Perhaps he wants to ask follow-up questions like 'is there any evidence for the alleged incapability?' ?
No offence taken - but 'not being my strong suit' isn't equivalent to 'incapable'.
No, but does it need to? its not really subjective as the rest we are talking about. There are design rules and instances that dictate what isnt good design and what is unlikely to bring an improvement; rather bring detriment. Yes, definitely an element of design, symmetry etc, but laws at the heart of it. I just didnt see what possible positive outcome could come from the conversation for Mark and it makes me wonder ...
and it was clearly not Andrea (or whoever the puppet behind this account is) he is talking about. He doesnt even do layouts, does he? and the layouts are quite good, at least on the clocking side. professional and the performance of the clock goes without saying. I remain unconvinced by the DAC performance as yet, but the layouts do not look incompetent at a glance.
Knowledge is in the eyes of the beholder, making it difficult to guess the nature or extent of what could have been learned by perhaps only one of the > 20,000 views of this thread. I will leave this to a god to know. Certainly there was at least one interesting thing that was reinforced by the dialog by Markw4 as related to my own experiences. This was along with some personal disappointments that included not using the Topping D90.
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The goal is to produce a great sounding dac. I will use what sounds good to me. Andrea takes another approach at getting good sound. There is no point in making dacs sound bad and then comparing them. What for?
We have compared D90 to a number of dacs before, including comparison to my dac. Don't understand what is so special about it, especially since Topping doesn't make that version anymore.
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