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Rooni wrote: I would really appreciate a suggestion for a dac to my Meridian 506 CD player. Meridian is a heavy and solid 18 bit player with a nice sled and now I seek a dac to the Sounds of the bad?
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xeizo wrote: Meridian 506 has a built-in state-of-the-art DAC anno 2000, so much the better has not DACs become. Meridian 506 has dual 24-bit Delta / Sigma DACs and an output buffer in Class A. And it is around that level, we are still on to get the most out of the CD medium. Does it sound better? Replace speakers, acoustics adapt the room, change amplifiers, but I doubt the need for a new DAC. Separate DACs use it mainly to render the files played from computer / networked, one has a CD player that you use that already has a good built-in DAC, it feels extremely pointless to buy another one! That's rather the drive train or the laser that turns into trouble when they put the .... edited. Now I saw that the Meridian 506 must have existed in several versions, thread creator seems to have an older model with 18-bit DAC which he is writing. Yes, it's not state-of-the-art but suffice probably well too. Disagree. Modern Dacar has improved. Try a Audiolab m-dac to view. High resolution material sounds better than CD. But you need a streamer to fix.
Richard wrote: High resolution united states cold storage material sounds better than CD. Now of course redbook iofs "Resolution" but do you have the urge to tell us how you arrived at your claim? Did you try the files I linked to? / Peter
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Piotr wrote: Richard wrote: High resolution material sounds united states cold storage better than CD. Now of course redbook iofs "Resolution" but do you have the urge to tell us how you arrived at your claim? united states cold storage Did you try the files I linked to? / Peter I would hardly call redbook standard for high resolution. united states cold storage The difference from a good tape recorder in the studio is great.
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