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High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it.

Something that came as a surprise to me is how good DAC's have gotten over the past 5-10 years.

Before then, there was a consistent, marked improvement going from Redbook (44.1/16) to 96/24 or higher.

The modern DAC, the best of them, no longer do this. The Redbook playback is so good high resolution is almost not needed. Anyone else notice this?
erik_squires
cleeds
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erik_squires
... no one has it because almost no one finds any value in it.
Every Audio Research preamp I've ever seen has a phase inversion function. It can be very useful!

The old McIntosh MX-100 tuner-preamp also had this function, although I don't know if it's included on more recent Mac products.
erik_squires OP
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Every Audio Research preamp I've ever seen has a phase inversion function. It can be very useful!


@cleeds

Please give specific example. :)

Best,
E

cleeds
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erik_squires
cleeds: Every Audio Research preamp I've ever seen has a phase inversion function. It can be very useful!
Please give specific example
SP-8; SP-10; SP-11; Ref 3; Ref 5 ...
erik_squires OP
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@cleeds

Hahahaha, sorry, I meant of music. :) I meant what music did you find it useful to use the switch with.
Also, what speakers are you using??

Best,

E
fleschler
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You are mixing up reverse channels on SP 8 and 10.  SP 11 and Ref 3 and 5 have reverse polarity.  I owned an SP 14, nope.  
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