High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it.


Something that came as a surprise to me is how good DAC's have gotten over the past 5-10 years.

Before then, there was a consistent, marked improvement going from Redbook (44.1/16) to 96/24 or higher.

The modern DAC, the best of them, no longer do this. The Redbook playback is so good high resolution is almost not needed. Anyone else notice this?
erik_squires
So, this brings us full circle. Who really can tell a difference in their system's polarity?

How much money would you pay for a switch to invert?

For me, that is $0.


I am not certain this is the same thing, but the Meitner PA6i preamp I had years ago had an absolute phase inversion button on the remote. I could not tell any difference whether the button was selected or not.
http://www.museatex.com/pa6i.htm