How Freakin' Cool is This!
My favorite hi-fi audio producer had a "name my new line of products" contest. Winner could pick either a pre-amp or a DAC (digital-to-analog converter) valued at around 1k.
I won--with my entry of "Insight".
Yeah me!
posted by Greg | 2:27 PM
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So ... pre-amp or DAC? Inquiring minds want to know.
If anyone cares, the "winning" post is here.
(I'm gjs_cds, naturally...)
I called Frank and asked for his advice. (I trust him, and he know's this stuff better than I do. Further, he's got me and my gear in his database.) He suggested that I get the DAC, because that would be a better value (to me) than a pre-amp. (The pre-amp upgrade will likely be a couple hundred bucks; a new DAC will likely be around 1k. Moreover, now that I've got kids, I would have never bought myself a DAC anyway--so that makes it kinda cool.) (Besides, another pre-amp would have resulted in a second system, and I've already got 2 pretty decent pre-amps that I don't use. Not to mention my two (unused) additional solid state amps and one (infrequently used) tube-amp.) So he was right about this, as usual.
An issue for me was that my CD player only has optical (digital) out... And a new DVD player (w/ digital Coax out) costs the same as a good optical to coax converter. So I ended up getting a Phillips DVD player--which is really cool because it has a USB input. So at some point, I can get an external hard drive and load my library on it. (At least theoretically.) (The negative is that I'll have to figure out how to get a display up... maybe one of those little car LCD displays for menu and file navigation; I'll just need to make it fit in my cabinet.)
Anyway--Frank said that he'd build me the DAC and send it over... That call was on Friday, but it might take a few weeks--I'm guessing. (Yet--I find myself as giddy as a schoolgirl.)
I'm actually excited to get it. In the past, I saw an external DAC is a stupid redundant luxury that probably doesn't add all that much to an audio system. A dumb purchase and a poor value. Now--I'll be able to make that determination myself. ;)
Greg didn't follow all the rules?!? I, for one, am shocked. ;-)
Congrats!!! Very cool.
This is kind of cool. Frank is actually suggesting that people buy the cheaper Insight DAC (compared to another one of his products).
He must be pretty jazzed about this new line.
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Congrats. I'm looking for the "name our product and win a million dollars" game. I'm tired of traffic.
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