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DC-2 vs. DC-1 v3.1
Posted by Philip Brandes [IP: 171.214.79.26] on August 25, 1999 at 01:30:31 In Reply to: DC-2 vs. DC-1 v3.1 posted by Shawn Harvey on August 24, 1999 at 12:03:27: Shawn: : I detected no animosity or challenge in his post, rather a cautious approach to the "truth", as it were. I didn't read it as innocuously as you did--words like "insidious" sound more judgmental than cautious to me. Nevertheless, I have apologized to Jim for attributing more to his post than he intended, and tried to address this approach to the "truth," cautious or otherwise. : Even Mr. Goddard posted a while back that the 24/96 DACs don't make any audible difference in the performance of the Lexicon DC-1 as an upgrade. Mr. Goddard was specifically addressing the audible differences in a DC-1 DAC upgrade, and stated that DACs per se were not a determinant of sound quality, rather it was the overall implementation capable of utilizing the greater resolution of the better DACs, which the DC-1 was not designed to do. It should also be pointed out that the 24-bit D/A converters utilized in the MC-1 and DC-2 are different from the ones in the DC-1, even with the upgrade. Also, the factory DC-1 24-bit D/A upgrade option does NOT upgrade the A/D converter, which is likely to be a factor if you have analog sources. More to the point, Mr. Goddard also posted elsewhere that the DC-2 was architecturally closer to the MC-1 than to the DC-1, and he claimed it sounded better than the DC-1. He posted this to specifically correct my speculation (similar to yours) that the DC-2 was basically a streamlined DC-1 with better I/O and no sonic improvements over a DC-1 with V3 upgrade. These are only Mr. Goddard's opinions, of course, but it doesn't seem fair to cite him as evidence in support of one argument when they more strongly support the opposite. Cheers,
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