New or Old DAC


I currently have an older Theta front end. Data ll transport & Chroma HDCD. I like it, even though it is old and discontinued. I would like to update my DAC first , I am looking for a Theta Pro Gen va. I know the sound of the older Theta stuff and like it. But, are there any newer DAC's out there in that $1K (used) price range that can really give an equal or better performance than the Pro Gen Va? Do the newer anti jitter (re-clocking) DACS fall into that price range?

thanks, mike
128x128mikedaniels
It sounds like someone who doesn't know what he is talking about, trying to pretend like he knows what he is talking about. Life is too short to have the wool pulled over one's eyes. I enjoy myself more when someone is NOT seriously trying to jerk my chain. Life is too long to allow such a gross conceptual error to continue!


I don't know. There may still be a conspiracy unfolding....at the very least, some real chain-pulling – and at worst, truly gross conceptual error…

Life IS too short for (this) type of behavior….
I don't know. There may still be a conspiracy unfolding....at the very least, some real chain-pulling – and at worst, truly gross conceptual error…

Life IS too short for (this) type of behavior….

Huh? What are you talking about, Ben? Or are you just trying to be inflammatory?

-- Al
Al, it appears as if Ben is replying to Pettyofficer's 2nd post on 9/15/09. I give Ben credit if he can read through all that stuff, he's a better man than I am. I saw a wall of hieroglyphics and just gave up.

I think you cleared it up well Al, and I think it's now time to put this thread to bed. I now wish I had just bailed after my first reply.......sigh. Apologies to Mikedaniels for turning this thread into another mess. That's why I suggested to search the archives, this mess happens quite a bit with many questions, including this one.

Cheers,
John
Like John says…

I guess I neglected to include the Insert-Humor-Here tag; albeit inflammatory humor.
Almarg-

"The Rectifying Stage Circuit IS the Power Supply, and it is an Analog Circuit"

Then if the Rectifying Stage Circuit IS the Power Supply, and it utilizes Tubes, then Jmcgrogan2's claim that no-one uses Tubes-fancy Caps-or Resistors in the Power Supply for Digital Stages is completely bogus. Is there supposed to be a separate Rectifying Stage for both Analog
and Digital Stages? Can no-one see the contradiction, or did I.Q.'s just drop sharply on this Thread? A Rectifying Stage, that uses Analog circuitry, to convert AC to DC, whose DC Output is never the less NOT Analog based- what is so difficult to understand about this? Am I going too fast for everyone? S-h-o-u-l-d I s-l-o-w i-t d-o-w-n f-o-r e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e? Maybe if I took the Vacuum Tubes out of the Rectifying Stage of my DAC, and shoved them in Jmcgrogan2's dark place. Then broke them off, perhaps then he would get the point that they are NOT simply part of my imagination! Try Rectumfying that! Almarg- what are you trying to tell me- that no DAC in existence can utilize Vacuum Tubes in its Rectifying Stage as a Power Supply to its Digital Circuits? And you agree with Jmcgrogan2 in this regard? If you really are an EE, I would suggest that you stick to working on Solid State circuits, because you are apparently as clueless as Jmcgrogan2! Where do I get off of this Flat Earth Society Thread anyways?