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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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Isn't the ADC another variable which limits the affectiveness of this test?
Sure it is a high quality ADC that you are talking about but so are the DAC's and in these tests the differences that are so minimal that putting another converter in the test increases the inability to accurately isolate the differences between DAC's?
Not to mention the converter in the CD player.
Couldn't the CD DAC introduce certain jitter that already exists in one of DAC's but not in the other. This jitter would show in both DAC's after the CD output is recorded through the ADC. It could possibly disadvantage one of the DAC's in this test, the one that has better accuracy in the area where the jitter is introduced in the CD DAC.
Hopefully this makes sense to people. Basically there are 3 variables now instead of 1.