Munich 2018

[Hifi_swlon]

I think not getting involved in the debate seems sensible in business terms as you say, but I’d love it if a company like Devialet (or dCS or anything be with high standing in the DA measurement area) would come out and show something about the subject based on evidence. Even if it was just a ‘we measured a mac, agaibst other options, fed into our hardware and found these results’ with grams and data of source ‘quality’ vs analogue output measurements. There are so few people that could do it that it would be a really interesting thing for them to put out there. Ok so if there were differences perhaps some could say their usb input wasn’t filtered enough or whatever but I just think it would help the debate and stop all this guesswork and things based on hearsay (to a degree). As let’s face it it’s not trivial stuff to understand and or test at the home user level. The same for dcs. They seem pretty straight talking to me, yet I read comments like ‘the Vivaldi stack really needs circa 10k of cables to shine’ why don’t dcs show exactly if and what the differences are with stock cables etc, they’re self proclaimed FFT analysis experts after all. Anyway, sorry for adding more OT stuff.

And yeah for me the room correction and even slight PEq adjustments make more of adifference than anything else but it’s still good to understand.