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Any jitter reduction "feature" is just advertising, be it Lavry or any other DAC. None of this hocus pocus is 1% as important as the DAC chip and anlalog stage implementation.
However, no matter how the internals work the DA10 is an extremely nice sounding DAC that I would gladly recommend to anyone looking for neutral sound.
While I can't speak to the technical aspects of the dac or whether it works s claimed. I really don't think that making sure that an item works as advertised is a bad thing. I would think that if an item does work as advertised, especially on something as heavily touted as the Crystal lock, verifying it would definitely be a good thing. After all, it isn't the first time a manufacture has embellished on a products specs.
I will also say that I owned the Lavry for a long time I don't find it to be neutral. While I don't necessarily find it overly offensive, I do feel it dulls down music and thereby leads to unpleasant experience. In my experience, music isn't boring, but the Lavry seems to portray it as such.
Well, I guess we will have to disagree on the neutrality point then.
The DA10 clearly does not put any emphasis to the high frequency range or for that matter any band in the spectrum. When recording an unamplified sound source like voice and playing it back on the DA10 that somehow sounds very close to the original. A lot of equiment seems to try hard to improve on the original and in my personal taste that is not what I look for in neutral.
I guess this is a matter of taste. Enjoy whatever equiment you have...
Cheers
Thomas
P.S.: Debunking embellishments on products specs is a function of this forum
John Atkinson says that Lavry DA2002's lower midrange had more bloom than usual.
I just curious about if the DA10 have the same "tube-like"character ?
A "tube-like" character is not my experience and I would think this would not be how Dan Lavry would characterize this unit based on everything I have read from Mr. Lavry. I have found the DA10 to be very neutral.
I'm currently scrimping and saving for a good DAC and Benchmark seemed the obvious choice, then I stumbled across the Lavry and most of the reviews and comparisons I have seen say it beats the Benchmark easily.
You switch the input sample rate into the DA10 and in crystal lock what you expect to see is that the conversion clock on the DAC chip switches as well. That is the definition of no resampling.
With the model of the DA10 that was tested that was clearly not working!
Yep, there's no other way to interpret these videos!
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