can DACs sound different if they both measure well?

can DACs sound different of they both measure well?

  • Yes, I know I can hear the difference

    Votes: 69 45.7%
  • I think I can hear differences sometimes

    Votes: 26 17.2%
  • Not sure

    Votes: 18 11.9%
  • No, they will sound the same

    Votes: 38 25.2%

  • Total voters
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In your opinion, or someone else, even mine.There will be an ultimate DAC for everyone because all technical issues will be solved and your or my subjective analysis won't count. It simply is.
When you get to the end of a technology, it dies and will be replaced with a new technolgy
 
Why? So far there is no ideal capacitor or anything else except as a theoretical model. How can a dac then be ideal?
Soon we will not need a capacitor and it will become a thing of the past. Hands up who still listens to a wind up gramophone? It was cutting edge, even I know of it and heard it at my grans house.
EDIT there was not a single capacitor or even something electrical in it
 
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Lead acid batteries was the goto solution for decades, I see stuff on the market that blows me away for weight size reliability safety and capacity
Imagine a Tesla with lead acid batteries,it would be a Truck towing a 60 ft trailer with batteries.
 
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That applies just as much to people who expect to hear no difference between dacs.
It is indeed the same thing; human perception can be + or - vs reality.

Thankfully, human research is quite mature, and so we are able to better compare things like what people percieve and what they can actually/really distinguish. For those who want to make a rational decision this is helpful. But it is hard to do in practice; it takes some understanding/learning to navigate the plethora of details, and there is a lot of snake-oil out there. Which (IMO) takes two opposing forms - products that measure poorly but have a seducive sales blurb, and conversly those which tout measurements way beyond our ability to notice a difference in any real situation. In either case price not an especially good indicator (within reason); IMO people shouldn't particularly use cost as a guide, and especially not feel they have to spend huge sums to get excellent (real) performance.

Though not everyone wants-to/should make a rational decision. What we like is what we like, real, imagined, complicated or otherwise. For most of us on this forum I'd guess that personal satisfaction with our audio is very important, and getting hung up on details is unhelpful.
 
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