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DACs and bass response?

I'm auditioning dacs in my system. One (COS) was way to analytical, overall, but had very tight bass. Another (Aqua La Voce) is what some would describe as "musical"  and sounds  terrific in all aspects except bass. My cdp alone does better in that regard. I have monitors and no subs. Can I expect that dacs that are hyper-detailed will also offer tighter bass as a rule?
stuartk
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I believe your Synchro-Mesh works as you claim from your measurements. I have no hesitation recommending it as I know others with excellent DACs that benefit from source jitter reduction devices including cables.

I also believe many (most) DACs are not at all good at jitter rejection and also have high intrinsic jitter (despite claims to the contrary). So the Synchro-Mesh is a great product for improving sound quality of most DACs.

Since you are clearly able to build a device that takes 800 psec jitter from an Oppo and turn that into 20 psec jitter with your Synchro-Mesh, then why do you believe that nobody else has a DAC that can correct incoming jitter to completely inaudible levels - around 20 psec or less?
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georgehifi: forgive my ignorance, but would installing such a cap likely void warrantee? Also, is this something I could purchase from say, parts conneXion? Briefly, what is involved in installation? Thanks.

Hi Stuart, if you need to ask this. Better off getting some one to do it, it’s not hard.

Cheers George

PS Stuart just found a good internal pic, click on the pic and it enlarges again, and the two blue plastic caps are the ones near the output rca's, but unfortunate they are already 3.3uf and are quite big enough, but of cheap industrial quality, this is why some owners are changing them for more upmarket caps, maybe this also could help the bass??
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/aqua/9_big.jpg

Cheers George
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@georgehifi : yeah; I am not at all mechanically minded, so what you you offer is, indeed, "sound advice"!  Thanks for the pic. 
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In general I found that there is a trade of between mid/high to low dynamics  and not only in Dacs, gear that sounds very detailed and 'sweet' (strong at mid and high) doesn't peoduce strong punchy  bass and in contrary gear that has accurate  and tight bass tends to be less detailed and musical at the mid/high section. 
In general I prefer to sacrifice a little bit at high/ mid to achieve strong and tight bass .
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