@jjss49
Got it. Thanks.
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yeah, I avoid oversampled echo-chamber unnatural sound.
Got it. Thanks.
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yeah, I avoid oversampled echo-chamber unnatural sound.
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How did a DAC that was way behind the times 30 years ago (TDA1541) magically become good?I’m no believer in ’magic’ but seems to me that times changed in the direction of better numbers (THD, SNR) and not in the direction of better sound. So ’behind the times’ is just a piece of propaganda - in fact TDA1541A is the best measuring 16bit DAC chip out there. |
Surely if there are classic cars, classic homes, classic amps, there can be classic chips. Occasionally, people know WTF they’re doing and they implement things beautifully. "Oh, that old Frank Lloyd Wright house? Who’d want to live in that?" Um, me. Oh, and: http://www.lampizator.eu/lampizator/TDA1541%20corner/TDA1541.html The point is simple: one can dispute that this chip sounds good or assert that there's a better chip which has come along, but resting one's argument on the fact that something is old is facile. |
Classic cars are nice to look at. Put it on the track with something modern and it gets trounced. Those who claim classic cars are "better" than modern cars are using the same congitive dissonance of those claiming that the TDA1541 magically enabled better DACs 30 years after it became functionally obsolete. I am making the argument that there is nothing inherently "good" about TDA1541 DACs just that they are the flavor of the month for a subset of the audiophile community. They DACs they enabled sounded bad 30 years ago. Their performance hasn't changed .... the audiophiles who support them ... |