merlin
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Some years ago now, an audiophile designer of some considerable repute told me of what he considered to be the finest dac on the market.
He drew my attention to the Mitsubishi DA-PX1 - a device some of his clients had installed in their reference systems costing many tens of thousands of pounds. I was intrigued as the device was an in car unit that relied on SD cards for storage of music.
I decided not to order one at the time purely because the device was only 24/48 compatible and I was archiving vinyl at 24/96.
Some years later I have taken delivery of the Tascam DA3000 digital recorder, primarily for experimenting with capturing my precious vinyl as bitstream using DSD.
This unit records to SD card and can playback either from that or from a USB flashdrive.
I have, for comparison purposes, the TEAC 501 USB dac which uses the same converters and a similar circuit.
To cut a long story short, the playback from the USB flashdrive is dramatically better than I am getting from any software package running on a MacBook Pro into either Dac.
Why? I'm pretty confident it's not expectation bias as it's the last thing I expected being a cynic. Before being conclusive I would need to do some more controlled tests but I'm already thinking of buying up a load of USB sticks and having my collection available on those.
Anyone else ever tried this medium?
He drew my attention to the Mitsubishi DA-PX1 - a device some of his clients had installed in their reference systems costing many tens of thousands of pounds. I was intrigued as the device was an in car unit that relied on SD cards for storage of music.
I decided not to order one at the time purely because the device was only 24/48 compatible and I was archiving vinyl at 24/96.
Some years later I have taken delivery of the Tascam DA3000 digital recorder, primarily for experimenting with capturing my precious vinyl as bitstream using DSD.
This unit records to SD card and can playback either from that or from a USB flashdrive.
I have, for comparison purposes, the TEAC 501 USB dac which uses the same converters and a similar circuit.
To cut a long story short, the playback from the USB flashdrive is dramatically better than I am getting from any software package running on a MacBook Pro into either Dac.
Why? I'm pretty confident it's not expectation bias as it's the last thing I expected being a cynic. Before being conclusive I would need to do some more controlled tests but I'm already thinking of buying up a load of USB sticks and having my collection available on those.
Anyone else ever tried this medium?
