The job of a DAC is convert the digital signal to an analog signal without loss of information and adding audible distortion and noise. There are DACs from fairly inexpensive to outrageously expensive that can accomplish this and have been able to for quite a while now. It is possible to hear differences in DACs but it isn't easy unless the DAC has been purposely built to distort the signal or the DAC is simply junk. The reason it isn't easy to tell DACs apart is they generally measure better than your other components. Amplifiers, pre amplifiers almost always will have more distortion than a DAC, even ones that measure well. Speakers are the weakest link they swamp everything else. Add your room acoustics to the speakers and it's very unlikely anyone hears differences in competently engineered DACs. If they tell you they can ask if they listened with their ears only or their eyes and ears in other words did they pick a DAC better than chance without knowing which one they were listening to.
Are "vintage" DAC's worthwhile, or is this a tech that does not age well
Hello,
whether it’s worth looking into old dac such as
Spectral SDR 2000,
Mark Levinson No.35 (36)
or so Sonic Frontiers Sfd-2 Mk2 DAC.
Digital audio is the fasted moving, now improving category out there
Because to this day they have no usb connection or other options.
But is it necessary?
Or is it better to still focus on a truly time-tested sound?
(sorry for my English)
whether it’s worth looking into old dac such as
Spectral SDR 2000,
Mark Levinson No.35 (36)
or so Sonic Frontiers Sfd-2 Mk2 DAC.
Digital audio is the fasted moving, now improving category out there
Because to this day they have no usb connection or other options.
But is it necessary?
Or is it better to still focus on a truly time-tested sound?
(sorry for my English)
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