ryan

I think some audiophiles are tentative to listen to somebody else's set up. God forbid I might here 1 note on your system that sounds better than mine.

Many times (myself included) people equate quality with money spent. And in a sense you sort of have too, how can I spend $5000 and say "wow, that's crap!" I am sure I could take the audio components out of my $9.99 clock radio/cd player and wrap it in the ALPHA DAC face and the ALPHA DAC packaging and say it cost $10000. People would sing it's praises! At the same time I could take the ALPHA DAC components and put a V-DAC face on it and say it cost only $399 and I am positive people would claim that it sounds OK for a $399 product! I'm SURE of it! I think I'll do a blind audio test on this someday. And belive me I include myself in "those people".

Both the DacMagic and V-DAC upsample to 24/192. But what do these dac's do when given a 24/192 signal? Is it just not supported? I read that the DacMagic accepts 44.1, 88, 96 as incoming. Just not sure what happens if it gets 192 as in coming?

Thank you, that really pointed me in the right direction. I did some research on the stereo/direct/pure direct playback on my receiver and found out a lot of interesting information. Interesting to find out that in my case ALL base is run through the DAC analogue or digital.

I'm trying to figure out exactly what DAC I'm using where and if I'm using the ADC processing, etc. I have a Denon 2809ci as my amp/receiver/dac whatever you want to call it. I have a cheap Sony CD player using the analog outputs into the 2809ci. What I'm guessing is going on is I'm doing a DAC on the CD player inself sending that to the receiver to get amplified and played back. No additional ADC or DAC? (I have all DSP, etc turned off on the receiver). If I choose to use the CD Players digital out, then I'd send the digital signal to the receiver that would then do a DAC get amplified then played back, correct? Does an ADC ever happen, except during recording? I get confused as to what device is doing the DAC, etc. I think that when I come from analog out that signal has already gone through the DAC process. When I do digital out then my digital input device is doing the DAC. Am I correct? When you look at the specs for the Denon 2809ci I see lots of info regarding the ADC and DAC components used. Just not 100% sure what is used when. Thanks for any info you guys can give. Ryan