Musical Fidelity V-DAC Owners? - Page 9

i have a solo on the way (although not with psu1)
you have two cans that are on my shortlist, sa5000 and pro900.
how do they perform with the solo?
i refer mainly to the common reported failings of the cans.
ie too much bass on pro 900, and too little on sonys ( + thin sound)
these are only what i have read, of course. your opinions would help me decide on next purchase.
cheers

have been playing cd's through my sony dvd player tonight.
either using coax to vdac to amp, or line out to amp.
guess what? i cant tell the difference.
have i just wasted my money on the vdac?
confused, was expecting dac to be better than built in effort on dvd player

It's not a giant killer, but more of an improved audio output stage if you got a CDP or DVDP with a poor analogue output. It also sounds better through USB than the line output of a PC sound card.

when you say "line output" are you talking literally or do you mean the digital out?

I mean the analogue output. Quite a few folks use a RCA audio cable from the line output on their soundcard to the AUX input on their amplifier. Sound quality is in general inferior that way.

i am using digital, from sc (normally)
flac files ripped with eac and using aiso4all, to vdac to ldmkv to cans.
i would have thought this would be better than using the analogue out of my dvd player to amp. but it aint!
all part of the learning curve i guess!?

Matsudaman has a lot to answer for. Even I got taken in by the hype, but luckily it is didn't break the bank.

the DAC search is about to be brought back to life.
gonna run out of space in my "redundent" cupboard at this rate!

. I know the feeling. My wife thinks they are free samples from work. Well, that's what I tell her. I just mentioned on another thread that I am now holding out for the USB DAC from Beresford. If it sounds as good as my modified TC-7510 and is cheaper than the DacMagic I shall treat myself to one before I padlock my wallet for a while.

not heard of this usb dac from beresford. though its probably a 7510 with usb input.
BTW where can i buy a good quality "wallet padlock"?
all the ones i buy break really easy

Just because you can't hear the difference doesn't mean a difference doesn't exist. If YOU can't hear the difference than you've obviously wasted YOUR money.

I can hear a vast difference between the V-DAC and the Arcam CD73. It's easy to hear difference between my Arcam and my Cambridge d500se. For Pete's sake there is a difference between cheap dvd player A and cheap dvd player B. To say that there is NO DIFFERENCE between a cheap dvd player and the VDAC is basically admitting to not being ABLE to hear the difference between the two.

BTW, you and Herandu should get a room.

Hi guys, quick question, i run mine via usb and it worked first time, no ploblems at all, why do some people have to run other apps such as aiso4all?
Thanks

i wonder if its because my cans (ath-a900) are not that revealing?
i have read they are forgiving of poorer source. could it be this is why the dvd player doesnt sound bad.
the player was also over £200 , when new!
and i will give the "room" a miss , thanks

I'm not sure if it's the ath-9000's that are not revealing the differences between your sources. Have you tried comparing the two with conventional loudspeakers? While my hd580's seem to be quite revealing in a detail kind of way, my speakers (wharfedale diamond 9.5's) tend to be even more revealing in a dynamic and also tonal way. Most of my impressions of the v-dac have been listening to speakers rather than through headphones.

Also, it doesn't matter if your dvd player was 200, 1,000, or 50 clams - it's going to sound different, whether better or worse. One might not be able to tell, but each piece of equipment is a different animal.

Fanboys strike again.