DAC v.s. Digital: An Audio Comparison

Oppo BDP-83 with Cambridge Audio DacMagic goes against an Oppo BDP-93 in Digital Stereo (HDMI)--both in Pure Audio Mode. The same track is played back in stereo for A/B comparison purposes. If you listen closely, you can tell the difference.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• oppo
• bdp-93
• bdp-83
• cambridge audio
• dac
• dacmagic
• digital to analog converter
• hi-fi
• cd
• audio
• home theater
• analog
• digital

[lew708]

Most DAC info on here are people with very high end systems and most of them do not even play music to demo how the DAC sounds! Your system is what most people on here have! I have been waiting for someone to post something like this! I can now go out and purchase that MF M1 DAC that I have been eyeing thanks to your demo of adding a DAC! I will post once I get it hooked up so that there will be 2 vids on here that most people can relate to. Good lookin' out BrolicBeast! Nice setup!

[BrolicBeast]

@lew708 Gracias!

[didjamatic]

Just so everyone is aware, all CD players have DACs and they can output an analog signal. This video shows an EXTERNAL DAC with an older player vs a newer player using it's own INTERNAL DAC. Both the BDP83 and BDP93 use the same Cirrus Logic CS4382 INTERNAL DAC, they have other differences however. I have the 93 and absolutely love it.

BDP83 w/External DAC 2:41

BDP93 w/Internal DAC 4:47

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

cool cat

[Jtoneloc]

not sure if you heard this..but with the cambridge DAC I can hear more of the reverb tail on the vocals..sound good

[SkyInHeritor]

wich speakers do u have

they sound good

[SkyInHeritor]

if u play the music without the dac do u really hear a difference?

[sweetsilage]

Great demo.. Thanks a bunch... Would like to try one. Do have "?".. I have an older unit, sansui 717. Do you know if the DAC would work if pluged into the aux or phono inputs?

[calvinchoe100]

like your system man :) i have a onkyo tx-nr509 receiver along with a jbl cinema 500 speaker set. how much did you pay for your dac?

[jerrod5o]

Have you tried the DAC (optical from oppo to the integra DHC 80.2?) the DAC inside the Integra is a Burr-Brown PCM-1795 (32-bit /192kHz) DAC which has better specs than the the Cambridge.If you skip the cambridge (especially the RCA connections) by using optical to the integra (optical to xlr out to amps) you will gain a difference without running noisy rca connectors to an analog section into the integra. You are doing 2 DAC stages by using analog input with processing enabled on the integra.

[Neojhun]

@lew708 Half Right, true that most people don't need a high end DAC like the M1. But a decent DAC is soo much more important then people care today. Most people don't know with a good digital record the sound realy is born in the DAC. Sad thing today most consumer tech has terrible DACs but people keep getting nicer cleaner amps forgetting about the DAC. In reality bad dac audio is crap no matter how good the amp or god forbid DSP. So DAC FIRST, AMP later, DSP only if truly no choice.

[greddy09sc]

Can you do a compare with and without DAC on same OPPO to hear the difference what a dac does?