Poll: Ultra with external DAC

[Valentino]

^I have the ability to use phase correction in FIR with my miniDSP Flex Eight (that's my "DAC" btw. I use the Ultra analog output for my headphone amp). Phase is close to flat with correction, and the impulse response more precise (no correction is possible below ca. 100 Hz because of 2048 taps available and 96 kHz Fs). I had a visitor to listen blind to one classical track (he could hear the change due to muting but I didn't give any clues to what he should listen for) to without and with phase correction. He said that one of them yelded a deeper sound stage. That was was the setting without correction.
I can understand why people prefer inferior playback. Hell, I have a turntable myself...

 

[EddNog]

...I can understand why people prefer inferior playback. Hell, I have a turntable myself...

Literally the entire universe of vacuum tube-equipped products.

-Ed

 

[slartibartfast]

I can understand why people prefer inferior playback. Hell, I have a turntable myself...

Vinyl can sound better than digital if it doesn't use the compressed master used for the digital version

 

[QuarryHunslet]

Vinyl can sound better than digital if it doesn't use the compressed master used for the digital version

I would say that it does sound better, and even more so if the records are clean.

 

[Grinnell]

I have a MHDT Stockholm v2 DAC and I found a big improvement which wasn't unexpected. The Ultra's DAC is surprisingly decent for the price.

 

[Valentino]

^On top of all this my phono amp has digital outputs only...