Hi!
Hmm, then i missunderstood you.
Could you describe the audio as more real sounding or maybe more natural?
/A
> On 13 Feb 2016, at 21:27, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
>
> I don’t knock people for having analogue systems or anything else and you
> pretty much summed it up yourself when you talked about people getting what
> they could afford to buy and that’s fair enough as I’m in that boat too
> however I do look around for the good audio and if it means I have to save
> and wait? Well so be it and that attitude has proven its worth beyond
> question.
>
> Yes an open mind is what’s required but all this wasn’t really the point I
> was trying to make, I was asking the question how best to describe the audio
> difference to someone between what you hear through a DAC and most audio
> equipment and the difference is certainly that of night and day.
>
> You don’t need good hearing to distinguish the difference though certainly
> you need some decent speakers or some reasonable headphones, you’re not going
> to notice all that much with your $2 earbuds which a lot of people are
> perfectly happy with.
>
> Its like MP3 files I guess, they’re perfectly acceptable when you’re
> listening on the bus and so on but you soon notice the difference when you
> start listening to music on CD’S and so on through reasonable equipment and
> the difference is even more pronounced when you turn on that DAC <smile>.
>
>
>> On 14 Feb 2016, at 7:11 AM, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>> Well, this is a good question as i am often very skeptical when hifi nerds
>> speak out their minds.
>> I think that others might think of them as not very open minded.
>> I am not a hifi nerd in my own perspective.
>> But people know that i am very audio intrested and that i do want good audio
>> quality.
>> TO be honest i don’t hear some differences other might talk about and people
>> may or may not judge me for that or laugh at me for that but i don’t care.
>> I think you should try to be very open minded and very very humble and not
>> critisize them for having their analog system for example.
>> I know you do but maybe they do not think you are humble enough.
>> We are talking about audio like an evangelist talks about Jesus.
>> Its like a religion where evrything we might say is the very word.
>> /A
>>> 13 feb. 2016 kl. 20:02 skrev Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>:
>>>
>>> I have a question which someone might be able to give me some advice on.
>>>
>>> I've been using DAC'S for nearly 3 years now and there's no doubt about it
>>> in my mind that they do truly enhance the music listening whether it be
>>> through a good pair of speakers or through headphones.
>>>
>>> Okay fine so how do you tell someone just how good a DAC actually is when
>>> they're stuck in "The Analogue World" for want of a better description.
>>>
>>> You tell them about your DAC and they say something like, "Yep but I've got
>>> this CD player or that Sound Card", fact is though that its still analogue
>>> and - unless you've gone out of your way to buy some top notch gear - and
>>> most people don't as they don't walk into Hi-Fi specialist shops - then
>>> they just have no idea what they're missing so how does one describe that
>>> in words?
>>>
>>> The only really good description I can think of is that a DAC enhances and
>>> expands the sound stage - in other words you get far more detail of the
>>> music -, the instruments are heard as you've most likely never heard them
>>> before if you've been listening to analogue equipment.
>>>
>>> I went looking for a DAC for someone last night and even I got a shock when
>>> I saw the prices they were selling for, one can buy a DAC which handles
>>> sampling rates from 32-96KHZ for $40 Australian, not the DAC for me given I
>>> have 192KHZ/24 Bit material here but its a good starting point.
>>>
>>> I doubt whether it would come anywhere near my Rotel when it comes to
>>> performance and the like but again, a good starting point for anyone who
>>> wants to get into the DAC game.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14/02/2016 5:49 AM, John Gurd wrote:
>>>> Hi Mary
>>>>
>>>> I think you would notice a massive difference. I haven't heard the Oppo
>>>> PM3s
>>>> but judging by the reviews they are certainly on a par with the P7s and
>>>> would sound incredible with the HA-2.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane
>>>> Trethowan
>>>> Sent: 13 February 2016 18:03
>>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List
>>>> Subject: Re: Oppo HA--2 just arrived...
>>>>
>>>> Very definitely
>>>>
>>>>> On 14 Feb 2016, at 5:01 AM, Mary Otten <maryot...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Interesting. I wonder if it would help the sound on my Nexus 6.
>>>>> Something should!
>>>>>
>>>>> Oppo makes a pair of headphones that seem to be quite favorably
>>>>> reviewed, at least by amazon purchasers. These are the pm-3, and they
>>>>> sell for a cool 400 bucks, so not cheap. One reviewer even compared
>>>>> them favorably with the P7.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mary
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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