07-27-2020, 11:39 AM
It sounded bright using the optical output from my Sony TV, but that might well be the TV's fault. The TV's analogue output sounds OK normally.
A while back I did some some A/B testing my CD player's DAC (Marantz CD6004) vs the Allo MiniBoss playing a .flac ripped from the same physical CD I was playing, and there was little difference between the two. Nothing to make me sit up and say "wow", anyhow.
Today I've done a brief test feeding the CD6004's coax digital output into the Sanskrit and switching between the two, using some classical, pop, and rock CDs.
To my ears, the Sanskrit sounds better. The CD6004's DAC sounds 'flatter' than the Sanskrit. Individual instruments seem better separated, somehow, on the latter.
Comparing the MiniBoss to the Sanskrit, the former's bass sounds distinctly muddier, less cleanly defined than the Sanskrit's.
A while back I did some some A/B testing my CD player's DAC (Marantz CD6004) vs the Allo MiniBoss playing a .flac ripped from the same physical CD I was playing, and there was little difference between the two. Nothing to make me sit up and say "wow", anyhow.
Today I've done a brief test feeding the CD6004's coax digital output into the Sanskrit and switching between the two, using some classical, pop, and rock CDs.
To my ears, the Sanskrit sounds better. The CD6004's DAC sounds 'flatter' than the Sanskrit. Individual instruments seem better separated, somehow, on the latter.
Comparing the MiniBoss to the Sanskrit, the former's bass sounds distinctly muddier, less cleanly defined than the Sanskrit's.
