what's all the excitement about Dac's?
Posted by: carruthers esq. on 28 February 2009
I have noticed that there is a whole lot of excitement about Naim releasing a Dac, and before the release a whole lot of negativity about the lack of one in Naims line up.
I have a Naim cd based system so (call me old fashioned) can't imagine why I would need one! Can somebody enlighten me why there is so much excitement about the release of a Dac? And the possible use's for one?
I have a Naim cd based system so (call me old fashioned) can't imagine why I would need one! Can somebody enlighten me why there is so much excitement about the release of a Dac? And the possible use's for one?
Nice post, Peter!
Kind of off-topic maybe but I once heard a theory of how the medium by which, for want of a better word, art is communicated artificially constrains that art. For example, an album or CD constrains the length and format of the music that it contains. Sometimes this constraint is used positively to create new things but more often it constrains the art within boundaries.
The "album" that we all cling to so dearly (myself included) is nothing but a constraint on the artist. Why should be have to wait a billion years between Kate Bush "albums" because we have to wait for an "albums" worth of material before anything is released. An album is artificial.
Consider also television and, to an extent, films. Both are mediums by which the work is communicated and both constraining. Television is linear and controlled - you get to see what the broadcasters decide you should see, for example.
Digital media is relatively unconstrained - I would hope that the liberation of the artist from constraints of "albums" will help to produce much more and much different types of music. Moreover with the imminent demise of big-business record companies and their one-sided contracts will this not also help to liberate the artists? Would we, our faithful dedication to the album aside, prefer to buy an "album" from big-business (of which the artist sees pennies) or buy direct from the artist as and when they decide to release a track, a number of related tracks or an album?
Enough already
Just to say that digital music of which DACs are clearly an important part will have repercussions that none of us can yet envisage.
Kind of off-topic maybe but I once heard a theory of how the medium by which, for want of a better word, art is communicated artificially constrains that art. For example, an album or CD constrains the length and format of the music that it contains. Sometimes this constraint is used positively to create new things but more often it constrains the art within boundaries.
The "album" that we all cling to so dearly (myself included) is nothing but a constraint on the artist. Why should be have to wait a billion years between Kate Bush "albums" because we have to wait for an "albums" worth of material before anything is released. An album is artificial.
Consider also television and, to an extent, films. Both are mediums by which the work is communicated and both constraining. Television is linear and controlled - you get to see what the broadcasters decide you should see, for example.
Digital media is relatively unconstrained - I would hope that the liberation of the artist from constraints of "albums" will help to produce much more and much different types of music. Moreover with the imminent demise of big-business record companies and their one-sided contracts will this not also help to liberate the artists? Would we, our faithful dedication to the album aside, prefer to buy an "album" from big-business (of which the artist sees pennies) or buy direct from the artist as and when they decide to release a track, a number of related tracks or an album?
Enough already
Just to say that digital music of which DACs are clearly an important part will have repercussions that none of us can yet envisage.
quote:fun in the bath
quote:Originally posted by munch:
Reasons and Reasons.
I love my Macbook Dac.
Great quality of music replay fun to use/easy to use.
The best £1,460.00 i have ever spent on Audio replay.
When i am Active next month it will sound even better.
You cant wack it.Its like Garlic bread.
Its the future, Embrace it.
Welcome it with open arms and ears.
Its not going away.
Its here to stay and its going to get better and better.
Grab it with both hands and dont make a mess.
Munch
Hi Munch,
Sorry, I'm sure you have been through this before but what source did you have before the Lavry? Perhaps a difficult question but what performance does the Lavry give you? Could you equate it with a Naim CDP? Just looking at your system profile... I assume the Lavry can't be too shabby... A while back I tried a Benchmark DAC1 but it didn't seem to do much for my system and that was then I had a cheap CD player too.