That Is interesting to hear about DMP to sound “thinner”
Appreciate this. I still love my astell Kern ak 100 ii. Will I notice a difference in sound enjoyment?
It still doesn’t matter, what most matters is at the heart of the foundations, the implementations and the components being used. Every resistors and capacitors, even PCB traces and it characteristic impedance are playing a role at the sound performances.
Sound is subjective, just because sound in itself is “noises”...so being able to suppress noises doesn’t always equal to better performances....case in example is that Casette hisses or reel decks...even LP surface noises...etc....people still enjoying it. Here I am not going to say who is right and who is wrong about enjoying their music and the devices that they are going to purchases.
So, the foundation of digital audio is to convert binary 1 and 0 into analog string of signals that is mimicking sinuous waves. As we all already known, after each conversion steps, there will be degenerations and inaccuracies, and this is why accuracies and degenerations need to be minimized at this very last step of conversion from Digital and back to Analog. For each resistors, capacitors...etc...they will all be adding noises and or taking away information on their own (filtering). The latest technology and developments of electronic components is to minimize surface mounting piezoelectric (which brings jitters and of which your devices would need PLL or some feed back comparators to negate). This is the beginning of digital to analog music reproductions again, and these components are still at early stage, expensive, and limited in ranges of application. For technicalities and seeing internal pictures alone, the DMP is built like nothing else ever before and with each corner is polished for music and performances.
The point is that, you can use a Ferrari engine in a corolla and make it run, but doesn’t mean that you can have a Ferrari....however, you can use a Camry engine in a race car, and make it a Race car....Lotus Elise....so...does DAC alone is the matter ? That is for you to decide
After all, listen by your ears, and heart, and not your brain, or eyes....and definitely don’t ever let the pocket limitation be in your way
So now, back to listening, I am always interested in testing out other gears, and for that said....I have never encountered a weighty note from any devices EXCEPT “Chord and Sony”, beside that “questyle audio and Cayin N8” is close...but I have not heard SP2000, so I can not judge. I will try to Demo one SP2000 one day whenever it comes
