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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
glupson
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"So your results are not surprising, glubson."
It seems that erik_squires and you agree on this one.
erik_squires OP
16,774 posts
 
Next time some one agrees with me I'm deleting this thread!

:D :D


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glupson
7,842 posts
 
Not fair. This is the first time someone has a chance to agree with geoffkait and you want to ruin it. This may be a historic moment.
fleschler
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When I used the EAR 324, it had a reverse polarity button that did improve LPs that were clearly reversed.  Stillness, second pressing by Brasil 66 greatly improved with the button pressed in.  First pressing was correct and fuller sounding even after second pressing correction.
jetter
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Erik "Most multi-way speakers have 1 or more inverted drivers. A typical 2-way box speaker inverts the tweeter relative to the woofer (but not always)."

Sorry, I am being dense here.  Are you saying that the tweeter and woofer are set up to not work in tandem.  That is, when a signal is telling the woofer to play a note (extend out), the same signal would have the tweeter do the opposite? Or maybe to say it in another way, the woofer and tweeter + and - are attached opposite to the signal from each other?
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