Why no love from Stereophile on Wyred4Sound DAC?
DAC2 made theabsolutesound editors choice list for 2020. Never mentioned on stereophile. I also dont recognize much online chatter about it.
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There are a lot of brands and components out there to keep up with, so it’s not surprising that some components that we may like don’t get reviewed by one magazine or another.
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I found the following objective review.
https://audiosciencereview.com/forum...2-se-dac.6507/ Not good. Maybe this is a different DAC than the absolute sound reviewed? The above site does a lot of objective measurements for audio equipment especially DAC’s. |
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It took me awhile to warm up to my 10th Anniversary DAC2v2, but it is one heck of a DAC. I bought what I think was the original DAC2 (not v2) from Dan many moons ago, then got the McIntosh D100 from another user on here, then the 10th. I found the DAC2 and D100 to be very similar in sound, the 10th turns it up to 11 and I also like the large amount of inputs.
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At the risk of opening up the whole “subjective vs objective” can of worms, I don’t dispute the measurements in this “review,” but if the reviewer never listened to it, it’s hardly objective. There’s an inherent bias already present in the fact that he’s dismissed the idea of listening to it, and his assumption that the particular measurements he performed are predictive of the sound. A balanced and objective review should include both listening and measuring, preferably done separately so that the listener is not influenced by the measurements and vice versa. Otherwise it’s like reviewing a car based on a certain set of performance specs and never driving it. |
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