Jim Lesurf wrote:

My feeling is that the differences between the Merdian DAC and the
Arcam player are slight, and that the difference between both of
them and the Schneider is pretty big.

This is in line with what I would have hoped.

Yep, I kinda reckoned it would be close to the Arcam (or an Arcam-class
sound). I always knew that the Schneider was a stop-gap (bought because my
previous dsposable 30quid CD player packed in).


My own view is that the
'better' the dac, the more closely it is recovering the waveforms
specified by the information on the CD/DVD. Thus 'better' dacs should
sound similar since they are all trying to reconstuct the same
pattern from a given CD/DVD.

A bit like amplifiers, I suppose.


Buy electrostatics. 8-]

Aren't they rather big?


My own view/experience is that loudspeakers and room acoustics are
where you can usually make the biggest improvements to the results
once you have a decent source/amp.

I would agree with that. The speakers and room define most of the basic
character of the sound.


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