
Anyway I hope you guys will find this to be helpful. There are a lot of things I missed in terms of covering each player in detail, but if you’d post it on the comments section I will try to fill them in. Appendix: The Concept Of Neutrality –.I’ll start with the table of contents for those of you who want to skip a section or two. I have had the chance to use these players with some very high end equipment and indeed the improvements I get from these players are good enough to warrant the purchase.

True to the “garbage-in garbage-out” principle, the app you choose for music playback represents an important part of the “source”. Any distortion created at this level is going to be passed on to the subsequent components on the system, and so it’s very important to get things right.

Of course the whole “Is it worth the money?” question is going to be the first thing people ask. One thing I need to state before going to the reviews is that the sonic improvements that you’ll get from these audio players are very subtle. Undoubtedly the hardware quality is more important than the software, so a $300 DAC is still going to be better than a typical $100 DAC despite the player used on the computer.

This is why the pricing of the players is going to be a big part of the decision.įor me, whenever I listen to a high end system, either for personal listening or for a review, I simply can’t go back to using standard Itunes.
