The differences are greatest with excellent recordings that are "minimally miked". People tend to think that audio electronics differ in sound of a particular instrument (which is what one might find with headphones or speakers), but in actuality, most of the differences are in the shapes and positions of the instruments, and things like the room sound (the room of the recording, not your room).



Atomicbob - who has extensively heard all the Schiit Multibit DACs describes the above in colorful terminology:

" 1. Best of D-S Dacs - an indistinct sound is barely audible in the recording that appears to not be musically related to the orchestral piece playing.

2. Bifrost MB - someone in the Second Violin section has flatulated

3. Gungnir MB - the flatulent sound originates with the 2nd chair in the 2nd row of the 2nd violins

4. Yggdrasil - that 2nd chair, 2nd row, 2nd violinist has let loose with a Db when clearly the piece being played is in the key of G."



There are many people who feel that the A/B process destroys perception of sound quality, because the latter is a mental process.

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