Dan Clark Audio Stealth Review, Interview, Measurements

Aug 27, 2022 at 12:35 AM Post #4,817 of 6,136
You went about the whole buy, test and sell in what I'd describe as a hot-headed manner, selling off the amp before even posting your impressions, which, I might add, didn't include even approximate volume level info, other than being matched, or the music you listened to, which would have been helpful.


But yet, you didn't make the effort to learn about the device you were using in more detail first. If you want to argue more, you can call me and swear at how it's my fault you wasted all that money or something, but I'm done here.

I sell off most things before posting my impressions. I'm not a professional reviewer like you.

What's there to learn about the device? I read all the specs for it multiple times along with plenty of contradictory reviews.

Also stop pretending I'm mad. I'm not. I've bought hundreds of things to just try out.
 
Aug 27, 2022 at 1:10 AM Post #4,819 of 6,136
Yeah, I said I'd probably keep it despite its higher energy usage/heat production because:

1. It has a nicer build quality.
2. It looks nicer.
3. It's an all-in one and saves some desk space.
4. It's not Chinese.
5. It has Bluetooth.
6. It's considered to be more high-end.
7. Because it's considered to be more high-end, there may be some sort of magic that I can't detect that's still there.
8. I haven't had any issues with it yet unlike my A90D which has a problem with the SE connection and high gain mode (that other people have as well). Once I have an issue with something, I don't like it as much, even if it no longer has the issue. I feel like it's poorer quality to have the issue in the first place.

So I'll be selling my Topping E50 + upgraded power supply and eventually a new A90D once I get a warranty replacement.



What was the purpose of this post? Go troll elsewhere.

Posting anything contrary to the vocal minority on here is such an ordeal.
Interesting. I only tried the conductor 3xr and despite having almost a year gap of owning a modded e30 + l30 (with custom o-core tranformer and silver sockets and cabling), they were eerily similar in presentation and macros that I thought my memory was betraying me. I just had to wait it out to hear someone doing a similar comparison. Both does make me appreciate my Hugo 2 even more as it still sounded much better despite the behemoth size of the Conductor + trying out between the supercharger and hypsos powering it.

The BT on the Burson is great. Hugo 2 BT is super disappointing. 😭. If you have an Android with Atmos capability, try out tidal Atmos and cast it to the Burson via BT. It's one of my favorite experience with the Stealth. Use MP slow filter. 360 reality audio is consistently a cleaner render where you can peer through the music more but the library is slim and the mastering is very hit and miss.
 
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Aug 27, 2022 at 1:24 AM Post #4,820 of 6,136
Also they kind of match:

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Aug 27, 2022 at 3:54 AM Post #4,821 of 6,136
Till now, I was really not thinking this could be an issue as the Chinese products are reaching quite often some very high sound quality level and still for reasonable price.
But as we are clearly in a really war period now in Europe, it will be important to avoid to help the russians and all their friends in the world to find some money to continue this endless war......
It seems that Chinese are playing on the wrong side now and are real Russian friends.. it's maybe time to avoid those products. it's pity to fall down back 30 years ago :cry::cry::cry:.
I will consider that when Europe and US pay for the war crimes, occupations and colonialism they have been commiting for over a century and getting away with. Just as I am writing these, they are still stealing resources from the occupied regions without a shame and they are trying to teach moral lessons to the rest of the world. They destroyed and toppled even progressive governments in several countries where I come from and doomed their future, but they are still behaving like nothing bad has happened. I am not even mentioning the "good busines" with one of the worst countries in the world, that has been waging a war and killing thousands of civilians for years. Just because they and their war mongering criminal organisations were getting away with these and theybare holding the trumpets doesn't make them any less guilty.

I don't think to carry out your political views on such a platform is a wise decision, as firtsly it is not the place for it, second your block doesn't even make 10% of the world population, and there are so many hurt people around the world from your block.

So I don't see a difference between a Chinese and western product.
 
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Aug 27, 2022 at 10:27 AM Post #4,824 of 6,136
This thread is going downhill real fast

Just one mention of an ethnicity and all hell broke loose. They forget that there are some well built Chinese products there as well built and can last a lifetime like the iFi gears, Holo Audio DACs and preamps and even their iPhones
 
Aug 27, 2022 at 10:36 AM Post #4,825 of 6,136
Again? I stand by what I posted. I believe I had it set to low gain.

See my response to you claiming I'm biased here: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/dan...ew-measurements.959214/page-315#post-17102080

I can claim you're biased too. Something looks fancy or is expensive, or was given to you as a gift so you assume it should sound better so it does.

What you can't claim though is that you evaluate things properly.
Of the many reviewers I watch or read, Currawong is maybe the most thorough without overly flowery prose. And his tastes seem to lineup pretty well with mine. The differences in gear that some hear may be inconsequential to others. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t there or don’t matter. I really don’t get the personal attacks.

Ignore button has reduced my reading time in half for this thread. 😒
 
Aug 27, 2022 at 10:52 AM Post #4,826 of 6,136
Of the many reviewers I watch or read, Currawong is maybe the most thorough without overly flowery prose. And his tastes seem to lineup pretty well with mine. The differences in gear that some hear may be inconsequential to others. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t there or don’t matter. I really don’t get the personal attacks.

Ignore button has reduced my reading time in half for this thread. 😒

I find Currawong agreeable with mine on a lot of his impressions after hearing those gears myself as well. I don’t even think he exaggerates the differences between components but definitely agree with his statement that if one is biased against subtle differences, one would not be able to hear those differences under direct A/B with a switchbox. I would even bet my money that one can’t hear a difference between a PC motherboard soundcard connected to an amp against an external DAC connected to the same amp under switchbox, level matched by multimeter A/B. The outcome has already been preconceived and that’s why it’s interesting how our brain works and varies between people
 
Aug 27, 2022 at 10:59 AM Post #4,827 of 6,136
I find Currawong agreeable with mine on a lot of his impressions after hearing those gears myself as well. I don’t even think he exaggerates the differences between components but definitely agree with his statement that if one is biased against subtle differences, one would not be able to hear those differences under direct A/B with a switchbox. I would even bet my money that one can’t hear a difference between a PC motherboard soundcard connected to an amp against an external DAC connected to the same amp under switchbox, level matched by multimeter A/B. The outcome has already been preconceived and that’s why it’s interesting how our brain works and varies between people
Was it a joke about the sound card? I would expect a lot of noise coming out of a PC motherboard sound card. An external DAC has its own power supply which solves this problem. Am I wrong?
 
Aug 27, 2022 at 11:11 AM Post #4,828 of 6,136
Was it a joke about the sound card? I would expect a lot of noise coming out of a PC motherboard sound card. An external DAC has its own power supply which solves this problem. Am I wrong?
There's a huge range in quality. My motherboard seems to be unusually good and I'm afraid to compare it to the Burson. It drove my TH900 to a very loud level at like 30% volume, so it might be sufficient for the Stealth. It's one of those high end gaming motherboards.

I've had some that were complete garbage though where I could hear GPU whine.

I had the sound off once and there was an advertisement on the screen with a bird flapping its wings and I could hear the flapping.
 
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Aug 27, 2022 at 11:58 AM Post #4,829 of 6,136
Was it a joke about the sound card? I would expect a lot of noise coming out of a PC motherboard sound card. An external DAC has its own power supply which solves this problem. Am I wrong?

Not all of them have noise as PointyFox pointed out and actually have great SNR
 
Aug 27, 2022 at 12:38 PM Post #4,830 of 6,136
@PointyFox So the GSX didn't reveal those "trailing edges" ?/s I've read these conclusions many times, but the gsx is more expensive so according the audophile math - its better.
 

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