Mac AIR v MiND 180 v Auralic ARIES v totaldac d1 server

[Antoine]

Getting the thread nearer to it's original topic, is it not possible that the Totaldac is quite simply a little bit better than AIR? i.e. maybe AIR does do cleaver things coordinating and clocking data from a computer, but the Totaldac is simply doing much the same thing and maybe doing it just that little bit better? Assuming the Totaldac is not a rip off, and assuming it is competently designed, then it should be better than AIR, it is about five times the cost of an AIR module. So if the Totaldac is offering reasonable value for money, then yes, it should be able to outperform AIR?

I guess some people (including myself) just want to understand the why and how. And how much something costs has, to me, never been more than an indicator of the products quality or better said how well the makers believe it's quality is.