02-Oct-2017, 13:30
In fairness to Pim here, he is running an O'dA, which should provide an excellent level of transparency without too much tweaking. Also, I believe Pim is using Roon AIR (I may have got this wrong). In my experience with the 1000 Pro, Roon AIR is far more transparent than the USB input.
So I think there is another way of looking at this, when I did the 'Gui test' I could discern a benefit to micro details with SAM off, but this difference was tiny, vastly smaller than the positive benefits I get from SAM on. So taking two data points (not statistically significant I would agree) , we get one claim of a tiny difference, and one claim and one claim of no difference. This makes the micro detail influence of SAM on / off somewhere between tiny but discernible and nothing. More data needed I think!
So I think there is another way of looking at this, when I did the 'Gui test' I could discern a benefit to micro details with SAM off, but this difference was tiny, vastly smaller than the positive benefits I get from SAM on. So taking two data points (not statistically significant I would agree) , we get one claim of a tiny difference, and one claim and one claim of no difference. This makes the micro detail influence of SAM on / off somewhere between tiny but discernible and nothing. More data needed I think!
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