What comparisons? (read above)
This one...........
As to the question, on a well tuned wonderful sounding system is Bryans much modified Line Magnetic LM-502CA Dac a killerdac killer, They clearly say NO.
Acknowledge the point that a side by side comparison was not done. But clearly comparisons are being made, which is not a problem in my book. We need to have some frame of reference to talk about.
Yes 16 BIT sources
Thanks for clarifying. In my case 16bit is not the end game, I only use the format due to my hardware choices. I have a huge library of hi-res music, that would be nice to play in its native format.
The dac supports 24bit, if/when there is a unit to hear up my way, then i am very interested to hear it playing 24bit.
Then we can say, well the mastering is different between 24bit files and CD's, but thats ok thanks to some really good downsampling software at our disposal we can,,,,,,,
1) Listen to 24bit reference track on optimised LM
2) Downsample and listen to same track on LM in 16bit
3) Listen to same 16bit downsampled track on KD
That, for me, is the thing I'd like to assess. Handling of 24bit music from a computer source.