Don Pearce wrote:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:02:24 +0100, Uncle Keith
wrote:




How do you work that one out?
I could certainly hear the difference between different models when I
bought my Alpha 5 - Or are you saying that the Alpha 5 was such a good
model then that nothing has improved on it?


I will say I'm surprised that you could hear differences even then,
I'll leave it at that. But certainly with the Alpha 5 Arcam had
reached a sound quality that was essentially as good as it gets.


IIRC the Alpha 5 used the geriatic Philips TDA1541 multibit DACs, and
the newer Arcams use Wolfson DACs. Surely DAC technology has advanced
heaps in the last 20 years or so?