Just for the heck of it, I tried to do some A/B testing earlier today.
Squeezebox Touch -> Rega Dac -> Rega Mira3 -> Rega Rs5 speakers.
Decided to swap out the rega dac for a headroom dac I have. It's a $300 dac, vs. the $1000 rega dac.
I had it hooked up so that the squeezebox touch was going simultaneously into the rega dac and the headroom dac, with the rega dac hooked into lineA and Headroom dac into LineB of the Mira.
Switching between the two dacs was just a button on the remote.
Forget about blind a/b. I couldn't even tell if I had switched between the dacs (line A instead of LineB).
So either:
a) I can't hear worth a damn.
b) the $299 headroom Micro dac is very good (or as good as the mira3).
c) There's a bottleneck in the system somewhere that's not allowing the rega dac to perform as well as it can.
I really believe it's c).
What's the bottleneck?
Squeezebox Touch -> Rega Dac -> Rega Mira3 -> Rega Rs5 speakers.
Decided to swap out the rega dac for a headroom dac I have. It's a $300 dac, vs. the $1000 rega dac.
I had it hooked up so that the squeezebox touch was going simultaneously into the rega dac and the headroom dac, with the rega dac hooked into lineA and Headroom dac into LineB of the Mira.
Switching between the two dacs was just a button on the remote.
Forget about blind a/b. I couldn't even tell if I had switched between the dacs (line A instead of LineB).
So either:
a) I can't hear worth a damn.
b) the $299 headroom Micro dac is very good (or as good as the mira3).
c) There's a bottleneck in the system somewhere that's not allowing the rega dac to perform as well as it can.
I really believe it's c).
What's the bottleneck?