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Originally Posted by philip  If you haven't sent i back it's easy for you to do a valid comparison between the two. Use a high quality ADC and connect a CD player to it, play some nice, well recorded music and do a setup in your daw so you easily can switch between the DACs and the music feeding the ADC. Compare the dacs to the analogue source. Witch sounds closer to the source? Well, there you have your winner...
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Not necessarily! While accuracy is the goal of the monitoring system, you have to consider the interactions of the DAC, the analog portion of the monitor controller, the power amp and the loudspeaker and the room and maybe even the interconnect cable! It's the sum total of how these components work together in the room that governs your choice of any one piece of gear that's part of the chain. I love the Avocet, I think it is very accurate, but I do know that Cranesong line amps have a sound, a very nice, slightly euphonic coloration. This seems to complement very well my Lipinskis, and my Lipinski amps and my room. The speakers are audio microscopes. The net result is a monitor system that's accurate yet more tolerable to the ear than say, the Lipinskis fed by a Bryston and a minimalist line amp or direct from a DAC.
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