Significant differences in sound quality between hi and low-end converters?
On Friday, February 17, 2017 at 1:04:09 AM UTC-6, Trevor wrote:
On 17/02/2017 1:55 PM, James Price wrote:
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.
Nope, manufacturers rarely drop prices on "high end" gear for fear of
alienating their suckers (customers), however equivalent, perhaps even
better ones will be cheaper, and some others will be even dearer to
capture the market that always insists anything more expensive must be
better. There's a lot more profit to be made from those people after all.
Who said anything about manufacturers lowering prices, though it's been known to happen when they release new hardware.
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