DigiPete

Digital Future of Audio

This appeared in the thread:

In a perfect world, where would the D to A conversion occur?


The topic here is where is audio headed, for normal consumers and for audiophiles.

I put his hypothesis to you:

Audio will be digital all the way through.

I challenge you to a battle of reason and arguments, I give you:


The challengers:


Mr. A ...

OK, so I jumped straight into the way way deeper end!

A set of Genelec 8250A’s with a monster 82kg 7271A 2 x 12” woofer was up for grabs at half price pre-owned.
I talked to the guy and set up a meet on Saturday at his office at the local film studio.

Everything seemed ok and in perfect working condition, so I got a total of 110kg of speakers including 980w of amplification and he got a bank transfer.
Fortunately I had teamed up with a moving expert friend, ...

OK, so I jumped straight into the deep end!

I got a pair of Genelec 8260s last Wednesday.
I have a 2 weeks full refund on them, so the speakers in my living room are actually loaners.
They'll order min as soon as I say go.

My listening room is small, relatively bare and untreated -so far.
The whole building will have all outer walls replaced next year, so I'm not about to add a lot of treatment until after that.

They sounded quite ...

The quest for Digital solutions begins

I needed something decent to tie me over till I found my final solution and the needed funding.

An Arcam rDAC made the cut. It’s a USD 500 unit and it has given me full value for the money.
Cheap enough to be disposable and good enough to not make me do something rash.
Today I would probably have chosen a Rega DAC or M2Tech Young.

I hit the local audiophile pushers, but most of them think that I speak ...

WHY digital?

So I am GOING ALL IN as a DigiPhile.
I am setting out with a set of rules:

My dogma:?
NO half measures?
NO gradual upgrades?
NO tweaking of hardware?
NO regrets

But why, oh why would I go digital?
What has changed so significantly?

Well, my dream has always been to get my rig to sound as good as the best live venues.
Little can compete with a live session at the Danish Radio’s ...

I love music - both immersing myself and loosing track of time and also as a sound-scape to my everyday life.

I think of myself as a hard core puritan analogue audiophile.
Well, that is until recent!
DigiPhile would be a better description now.

My youth was spent creating music and other art as well as enjoying concerts and my ever evolving stereo system.
Cassette -> 2 track -> consumer record player -> audiophile-ish record player (Thorens ...