17-Jun-2015, 19:52
My experience exactly.
I found the character of the various DACs I tried into the analogue inputs on my Devialet came through unscathed. And that was the D-Premier 4 years ago.
I am firmly of the belief, based both on specs and listening, that a modern properly engineered ADC/DAC can be audibly completely transparent.
I believe that the Devialet is such an ADC/DAC.
Coloured DACs such as non-oversampled, ones with no reconstruction filter and most if not all with valve analogue stages have audible levels of colouration added and I believe the Devialet reproduces them so close to perfectly that these colourations are just as audible through the Devialet as through an ordinary amp.
I found the character of the various DACs I tried into the analogue inputs on my Devialet came through unscathed. And that was the D-Premier 4 years ago.
I am firmly of the belief, based both on specs and listening, that a modern properly engineered ADC/DAC can be audibly completely transparent.
I believe that the Devialet is such an ADC/DAC.
Coloured DACs such as non-oversampled, ones with no reconstruction filter and most if not all with valve analogue stages have audible levels of colouration added and I believe the Devialet reproduces them so close to perfectly that these colourations are just as audible through the Devialet as through an ordinary amp.
Devialet Original d'Atelier 44 Core, Job Pre/225, Goldmund PH2, Goldmund Reference/T3f /Ortofon A90, Goldmund Mimesis 36+ & Chord Blu, iMac/Air, Lynx Theta, Tune Audio Anima, Goldmund Epilog 1&2, REL Studio. Dialog, Silver Phantoms, Branch stands, copper cables (mainly).
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