Richard Crowley wrote:
"Laurence Payne" wrote ...
Let me put it this way:

You feel that expensive MUST be better.

Some people just can't get over that assumption. Nothing you can
say (or demonstrate) will dissuade them of their delusion. They
will never comprehend the technology and economics of modern
monolithic integrated circuitry.

Once again, I never said that. All I said was that a high quality piece has
a good chance of sounding better than a piece of crap. Consider the filter
stages and analog op-amp stages etc which follow any DAC stage. Wouldn't you
rather have these stages designed and built by a higher quality company or
someone you never even heard of in China with NO audio credentials, built
using the cheapest raw materials possible, right down to the contaminated
semiconductor material used in their op-amps and other parts? I'm not saying
a given player might not sound fine, but these blanket staements really take
the attitude of, "they all sound the same" way too far.

Mark Z.