My quest for “desktop audio” utopia started over a decade ago with a pair of AudioEngine A2 powered speakers. Not really a hardship considering the quality of headphones and music reproduction gadgetry available to today’s music lovers. Nowadays, with the advent of co-working and open plan office space, headphone listening has become a necessary adjustment. Of course, that was back in the day when I enjoyed the plush confines of an office and the indulgence of audible music at work was a thing. Headphones seemed to be a bit isolating for me. I used to much prefer listening to music at my desk through speakers. Actually, I love to listen to music any time. You just can't make a blanket statement saying that "so 'n so DAC is the only one worth buying.I love to listen to music while I work. I have it in my headphone setup because it looks cool stacked with my Schiit Vali. I really like the Schiit Modi Multibit, and have had it in my main system (it sounded great, but it is different). I sold the BiFrost Multibit because I couldn't tell much difference between it and the Modi Multibit. I am currently using an original DACMagic in my main system, a Schiit Modi Multibit for my headphone stack, and am trying to order that Topping DX3 pro (see review above, out of stock everywhere, maybe I have to wait for the next MassDrop) to replace the audio engine D1 in my desktop system (both headphones and Audioengine A2 speakers).
I have a closet full of DACs, and they all sound different. The Schiit Yggdrasil measured poorly on John Atkinson's bench, but many professional reviewers liked the way it sounded in their systems. And I guarantee most of us do not have the electronics background to meaningfully interpret the test results, and even if we did how do you map the test results to a subjective listening experience?
This may be an enjoyable pursuit, but many of us do not have the inclination nor the test equipment to do this. If your hobby is testing devices, then I suppose a definition for "accuracy" can be posited, a hypothesis established, and a series of tests could be run to determine whether a device meets the criteria (and to what degree those criteria are met). Is that so? How do you know? What criteria did you use for that assessment? What does "accurate" mean? Are you informed by something you read on "Audio Science Review"?. Like I said, only their Modi 3 is worth buying." Mzkmxcv said: "Even Schiit’s flagship DAC won’t be as accurate as the two I mentioned above that are much cheaper.
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