"Nick Gorham" wrote in message


Chord and several others before them are making big
noises about their new DAC's which claim wonders due to
the use of a filter designed by someone called Robert
Watts, he calls it a Watts Transient Aligned filter.
Other than on Chords pages, or related adverts/review
sites I can find no mention of this alg on the web at
all, and neither can I find anything in the IEEE library.
Does it ring a bell with yourself (or anyone) or is it
just more BS?

Let me put it this way - audible perfection is anything that passes a
straight wire bypass test. Good modern ADC/DAC combinations have been
capable of this since no later than the early 1970s.

All that has changed since then are the size, power requirements, and price
of a good modern ADC/DAC.

A good modern ADC/DAC used to cost something like a half-million 1970
dollars, took up about 9 RU, and dissipated half a kilowatt or so.

A good modern ADC/DAC is now just a wee bit cheaper, smaller, and energy
efficient. ;-)

IMO, anybody who thinks they can improve on the sound quality of a straight
piece of wire is pulling your leg.