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Which brings me to T+A's DAC 8 DSD, which, for those who want to set up an all-digital system, has about as perfect and completeon papera feature set as I've seen in recent months. Hence the need to cover all formats, interface options, and functions. Though sound quality is the lion's share of what counts with any audio component, I think that, for a given price, a new DAC's appearance and features are beginning to have proportionately more impact in the market. But since that time, in my experience, the range has narrowed. Ten years ago, I thought there was a wider range of sound quality even among DACs of similar pricesand maybe, back then, there was. I've found Bruce's observation to be generally true. Technically, these were two very different animals. He was surprised that, after carefully matching levels and working to eliminate any other variables, they sounded more alike than not, and only slightly different even after hours of listening. Bruce had recently compared his own brand-new Codex with a DAC he'd owned for a couple years, both costing about the same but built to very different designs. So exclaimed my longtime pal and fellow audiophile Bruce Rowley when I revealed to him that T+A Elektroakustik's new DAC 8 DSD digital-to-analog converter ($3995) had arrived for review, just after I'd finished writing up the Ayre Acoustics Codex DACheadphone amp ($1795).
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