10-Dec-2018, 19:06
Let's leave aside the price comparison of the R2R DAC to (presumably) your 440 for a while. What I read in(to) your post was that you were listening to a completely different system which happened to include the R2R DAC, possibly in a completely different environment, and perhaps in a situation where you were pre-disposed to hear something special.
My point is that there is probably a lot more going on than just what DAC was in use - a lot of it being in your brain (not that I'm discounting that, it's a valid subjective experience). Just hearing something different and new can often sound better than the familiar, at least initially, even more so if you have a conscious or sub-conscious expectation that it will be special.
Can you tell us more about the complete system that you listened to, and what environment was it in? For example, had the room been treated carefully, and how had the system been set up?
My point is that there is probably a lot more going on than just what DAC was in use - a lot of it being in your brain (not that I'm discounting that, it's a valid subjective experience). Just hearing something different and new can often sound better than the familiar, at least initially, even more so if you have a conscious or sub-conscious expectation that it will be special.
Can you tell us more about the complete system that you listened to, and what environment was it in? For example, had the room been treated carefully, and how had the system been set up?
Roon (Mac Mini), Wilson Benesch Full Circle, Expert 1000 Pro CI, Kaiser Chiara
Warwickshire, UK
