Hi all ..yesterday night was full of surprise...Ever since I got my ifi Micro Dac , I have been using a coaxial output from philips dvd player into the dac. I was playing the "Hazir 2" and suddenly the dac ran out of battery.I was desperate to listen to music and pulled out my old marantz cd 48 which has been sitting on the rack for the last 2 months.To my surprise , I was stunned by the natural /organic and real sound. The voices were more holographic and sounded really good and I felt that the details were there but more on the background rather than in your face.
Now this opened out a lot of questions.
1.Was it the sugden that made the sound thin or the ifi Micro dsd dac ? I remembered , Sugden Cd players using the same philips chip as in the marantz 48. Does that bring in greater synergy between source + amplification ?
2.marantz dac > ifi dac ?
3.Or is it because i am using an ordinary transport , with ordinary coaxial cable with the Ifi ?
Don't know the answer .