dex85
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i read the stereophile review today. while it didn't get the stellar ratings, conclusion was it is good stuff. but i was shocked by Roy Hall's reply in Manufacturers Comment. guy really showed his class. i wouldn't buy anything from him based on that comment alone.
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Since Sam(reviewer) deems it necessary to quote John Maynard Keynes i though it appropriate to start with more relevant quote from that great economist:"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of though on the unthinking". Sam is Luddite, and an unthinking one at that. The dac25.2 is designed specifically to listen to musin on or through a computer. The USB input at least a hint of this. The instructions tell you this. But what does Sam do? He uses a CD player as his source. There is nothing wrong with that, except that it misses the whole point of USB DACs. Like or not (and I don't), people are storing their music on computers, and as a lover of music and a manufacturer, it is incumbent one me and others in our industry to help retrieve that music and make it sound good-thus the dac25.2. He did say that "the dac25.2 sounded especially swell with Internet radio." Suprise ****ing suprise. It was designed for that! What he should have done is listened to music through the iTunes software on his Mac and not through his aged (probably acquired for free) CD player. The beauty of our DAC is that it really makes sense of music stored in digital media. It works well with that whore of compression, MP3, and soars, like the lark ascending, with uncompressed files. Really, Editor, is this the best you can do? Don't you have any new, your writers who get it? Am I doomed to suffer the rantings of an aged buffoon? I guess so. Roy Hall Music Hall |