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I think you need much more carefully what I actually said because you've misunderstood. When we did ABX testing we used reed relay switching of electronically gain matched devices. It might have been op-amps or DACs or any of the things that the hot air merchants claimed sounded better. We take soun...

Before I bought half of AVI I was at ATC where much of my work was with large record studio control rooms. Because of the nature of the acoustics in these rooms, treatment was a must so I got to know the best acousticians and I experienced the dramatic differences they could make to often otherwise ...

Thanks for the barbed welcome Mr Keny I bought an NEC CD in the late eighties to replace my £1000 Sony CDP 555 ES, which was the best of the day and used the Philips TDA1541 Crown S 1 with Sony's digital filter that was significantly better than the Philips offering. This machine managed full 16 Bit...

Hello everyone, I keep reading these types of posts and wondering why they still occur. It should have been obvious for some time that DACs have so little distortion that it's below audibility. There's been little advance in stereo ones too because the big money is in phones and Tablets or AV. Headp...