[Trevor]

On 17/02/2017 1:42 PM, 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,

Lots of challengers for best, and so close as to make their other
features the defining difference. ANY that have added "flavor" are not
even in the running for best IMO, despite what some ******s prefer.

but there are some mighty expensive converters, still.

Right, and they are the ones who find it necessary to be different. I
buy the best value converters I can find that are designed to be as
transparent as possible. I can add ANY effects I want later thanks very
much!

Trevor.