Thoughts on a bunch of DACs (and why delta-sigma kinda sucks, just to get you to think about stuff)

[twinkle]

  BRUZ is the best/only flavor.

Oh good, a clue about the dac in the form of a coded message!

 

[jacal01]

Not a clue; a giveaway.  We're there, baby!

 

[twinkle]

  Not a clue; a giveaway.  We're there, baby!

Surely, you're not calling me baby?

 

[jacal01]

If Telly Savalas could do it, it's not so hard now for the rest of us.
 
How old are you, anyway? 

 

[twinkle]

  If Telly Savalas could do it, it's not so hard now for the rest of us.
 
How old are you, anyway? 

You're supposed to reply: nope, and don't call me Shirley

(ps no spring chicken around here)
edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6_rXO3wdUs

 

[jacal01]

Doh!  Completely missed that one.  And somewhat aggravatingly, it seems to happen more and more frequently of late.  Which should give you some indication of my age... 

 

[twinkle]

  Doh!  Completely missed that one.  And somewhat aggravatingly, it seems to happen more and more frequently of late.  Which should give you some indication of my age... 

 

[Argo Duck]

With age comes greater noise rejection. (Granted, sometimes you miss a good one that's in the noise, like the one above )

 

[jacal01]

Were that it was so.  I'm finding the babble all increasing, meself.  Is that what you mean? 

 

[Argo Duck]

Pretty much I find I focus more on the key message and ignore the side-tracks and chatter that go nowhere. That's what I mean by noise. And I don't just mean people talking or writing. There's a lot of it in the data I work with too. I'm sure you know what I mean.

Speaking of talk though, I used to remember whole conversations verbatim. Find I don't do that anymore unless the conversation is interesting/worthwhile. Of course, sometimes I tune out when I shouldn't :eek:

 

[jacal01]

Huh? 

    [Was that another softball lob, like the Surely line twinkle threw me?]
 
But that's actually a relief.  I thot you were talking about the incessant voices...

 

[Argo Duck]

^ Oh those voices. I know what you mean...

 

[BirdManOfCT]

   
On this thought... the problem once you get a great DAC is that you start hunting for good recordings. Better masters. I think I have four different masters of Michael Jackon's Thriller. You start doing crazy **** like hunting down SACDs (yes DSD can be converted to PCM - actually, if you look at the frequency distribution say in say a wave editor like Adobe Audition, a good amount of DSD seems to be sourced from 44.1kHz PCM), buying rare Japan releases, asking friends in the industry, perusing every "remaster", etc. in an attempt to find the best recording.
 
It's kind of a pain, but I actually find the search for the best recording quite rewarding.

LOL! I'm just starting that journey with headphones. I'd started that journey about 20 years ago with a loudspeaker system, but it got cut short when we converted the listening area to office space. Probably saved a lot of money!

 

[Chris J]

When did we stop using the 'Spoiler' method for quoting large posts and can we please revert to that ? The only thing that irks me more is when someone quotes a massive post containing a collection of images - it's just not good netiquette folks. 

OK Mom

 

[korolev]

thanks for sharing