Ever since the mid 1990s you can't hear or perceive a difference in consumer level DACs, even you admit it doesn't matterDepends on how critically you want to listen to things but if you do listen critically, the DAC does matter. Especially anything before the turn of the millennium and if it was cheap, WILL have an impact. Sure, does it make a big enough difference to really matter in the context of music? Probably not.None. By the time the mid 90s rolled around Roland was using off the shelf DACs they could buy in the cheapAnother question is how much DAC on JP contributed to the sound...
If you look in th service manual you will see the DAC was a upd63200gs-e2
That was a very very common DAC that was used in many DVD and CD players, it had no impact on the sound and was transparent
You can still buy them today for a few dollars
In the 1980s DACs were not used in inexpensive consumer electronics and many of them were low powered bespoke designs that would color the sound
By the mid 1990s with the rise of low cost CD and DVD players that was no longer the case
I deal in real world music production, if I have to look at things on a scope to tell a difference there is no difference
There certainly is no magic or mojo in consumer level DACs and hasn't even for decades
Statistics: Posted by IvyBirds — Fri Sep 13, 2024 10:33 pm