xnor
Headphoneus Supremus
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As always, what matters is the output at the very end - the connectors - and not the fancy brand names on the super expensive or cheap chips inside. The former wouldn't be any guarantee that the implementation is good enough to make use of the extra performance anyway.
Afaik, most blind tests have been done between amps (usually with a fail as result) but I'd love to see some DAC blind tests as well. People think they can hear tiny frequency response variations at 20 kHz, a bit more distortion, jitter ... let's not even go there, and so on... but as soon as you hide the devices they can't "anymore".
Afaik, most blind tests have been done between amps (usually with a fail as result) but I'd love to see some DAC blind tests as well. People think they can hear tiny frequency response variations at 20 kHz, a bit more distortion, jitter ... let's not even go there, and so on... but as soon as you hide the devices they can't "anymore".