Author Topic: December Meeting  (Read 8660 times)

Offline richidoo

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Re: December Meeting
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2009, 09:37:34 AM »
Welcome RussL. Good to have you on AN!  Thanks for your low down on the meet.

Re-Break-in is real. I have been caught condemning amps for rough treble which had not been played in a year, after a couple days they come back around. Something you don't think about until you hear it for yourself.

At a recent DAC comparison down here the Cullen stage 4 DAC was bettered by the stock version, and slaughtered by the Oracle and Northstar. The Sabre32 DACs we have been farting around with from TwistedPear and Oppo are coming close to the Oracle I think.

Your benchmark comments are typical of what I have heard over the years. I have still never heard one, except at trade show. bacobits brought one over once, but it didn't make it into comparison.  I rode to the airport with a Benchmark engineer once, that dude knew his shit.  He said they ran a track through the DAC 20 times recording the output and resending. The audition panel could not tell the difference from 1st to last gen.  But never in comparison to other DACs with audiophile panel.