Significant differences in sound quality between hi and low-end converters?
On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 8:42:29 PM UTC-6, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 2/16/2017 7:15 PM, Trevor wrote:
Most converters these days are *SO* far ahead of any speakers (and
rooms, and human hearing) that listening for problems is rather
pointless. You can really only measure them.
Today the high end A/D converters for studio use have some flavor of
distortion built in so they don't sound so much like what they really
are. Each one has its extollers, and there are enough to go around so
that everyone with enough money can buy the distortion that he prefers.
There's no clear "best" any more, though, but there are some mighty
expensive converters, still.
If history is any indication, I'd imagine the most expensive converters today will be relatively inexpensive in 15 years.
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