whitedragem
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Deric- quite possibly the problem with text is ‘no tone conveyed‘ with my words..
I enjoyed the video, my post wasn’t to try to critique ‘them’ (I am positive towards what they do!)
I kinda used a tactic to inject some interest from anyone who may have skipped watching the video, and gave reference to the ‘youngsters’ off camera (the two Alex’s).
I am not surprised that any reviewer could have a hard time picking some differences.. to me DACs can sound the same, and in my recent ‘quick’ testing, also found that.. (until they ”didn’t”, which was in ‘some songs at specific moments’- often true of much hifi kit testing)…
If any given reviewers’ playlist didn’t give an obvious difference, OR ‘they were NOT fast switching between units at appropriate moments’, what we got in their review, based off a small amount of time testing’ is quite viable,.. and happens all the time.. Heck here on Head-fi we have lots of people who swear black and blue to all sorts of ‘myths’ or things seen by them(or unseen by them) and much of it can come to limitations in the ‘resolve‘ capability of the total system (not the case with the aforementioned video) or any given test media run on it (likely the case for one of the ‘serious’ reviewers above…).. (and ‘perception’/EAR TRAINING etc)
This is why any time I check equipment I like to do so in ‘several setups’ and with several people…(over a decent amount of time)
Again, to be clear,.. I really appreciate the video and respect the work and effort that went into it. I also highly respect all THREE on camera reviewers, even if this vid isn’t their best example of a ‘review’/‘review process’; they convey information,.. and I know this is sought after- and MANY people can now appreciate some further insight / ‘opinions’ that are shared.
I have no doubt with certain music/in a certain setup/ listening for ‘certain things’ the Denafrips would justify its’ design. (I am a fan!)
My words above was just to put some fuel on the fire, ‘that “I too” experienced what was being claimed in this video’; the dynamics and staging differences from the iFi part, and ‘musical power’ (ability to sound like live music being recreated in my personal living space), was incredible and ‘quite a stand out’ vs other products I was comparing against.
It wasn’t subtle (in those moments that had it ‘pull away’) when revealing these differences.. although there was also a lot of the time (perhaps 60%) where there was as close to nil difference as to leave me ‘shrugging shoulders’ and not caring which DAC would get my electricity bills’ bean counter.
edited to fix some punctuation -yes ‘I went there’
I enjoyed the video, my post wasn’t to try to critique ‘them’ (I am positive towards what they do!)
I kinda used a tactic to inject some interest from anyone who may have skipped watching the video, and gave reference to the ‘youngsters’ off camera (the two Alex’s).
I am not surprised that any reviewer could have a hard time picking some differences.. to me DACs can sound the same, and in my recent ‘quick’ testing, also found that.. (until they ”didn’t”, which was in ‘some songs at specific moments’- often true of much hifi kit testing)…
If any given reviewers’ playlist didn’t give an obvious difference, OR ‘they were NOT fast switching between units at appropriate moments’, what we got in their review, based off a small amount of time testing’ is quite viable,.. and happens all the time.. Heck here on Head-fi we have lots of people who swear black and blue to all sorts of ‘myths’ or things seen by them(or unseen by them) and much of it can come to limitations in the ‘resolve‘ capability of the total system (not the case with the aforementioned video) or any given test media run on it (likely the case for one of the ‘serious’ reviewers above…).. (and ‘perception’/EAR TRAINING etc)
This is why any time I check equipment I like to do so in ‘several setups’ and with several people…(over a decent amount of time)
Again, to be clear,.. I really appreciate the video and respect the work and effort that went into it. I also highly respect all THREE on camera reviewers, even if this vid isn’t their best example of a ‘review’/‘review process’; they convey information,.. and I know this is sought after- and MANY people can now appreciate some further insight / ‘opinions’ that are shared.
I have no doubt with certain music/in a certain setup/ listening for ‘certain things’ the Denafrips would justify its’ design. (I am a fan!)
My words above was just to put some fuel on the fire, ‘that “I too” experienced what was being claimed in this video’; the dynamics and staging differences from the iFi part, and ‘musical power’ (ability to sound like live music being recreated in my personal living space), was incredible and ‘quite a stand out’ vs other products I was comparing against.
It wasn’t subtle (in those moments that had it ‘pull away’) when revealing these differences.. although there was also a lot of the time (perhaps 60%) where there was as close to nil difference as to leave me ‘shrugging shoulders’ and not caring which DAC would get my electricity bills’ bean counter.
edited to fix some punctuation -yes ‘I went there’
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