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anonymous 28 January 2005

I'm considering getting either a Mytek Stereo96 DA or Benchmark DAC1 to feed my Dynaudio BM6As. Opinions on which one is better/preferrable?

Thanks.

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anonymous Sat, 01/29/2005 - 09:43

Massive Mastering wrote: Of the two, I'd probably just barely suggest the Benchmark. Nice unit.

You can see that this stuff is subjective because I came up with a similar but opposite conclusion as Massive and ended up going with the Mytek.

Anyway - you definitely want to listen for yourself when making these decisions - I'd either ask a dealer that has both to give you a demo, or rent both units at once for a day, or if neither of those is possible you can listen to some comparison files at http://www.mytekdigital.com/listening_test.htm

Just to make your life more complicated - if you can come up with more cash you might want to demo the Lavry Blue units too.

Best regards,
Steve Berson

anonymous Sat, 01/29/2005 - 11:53

From what I've read, the Lavry Blue unit appears to be the best of these, but it doesn't have a level control for monitors, or a heaphone amp, both of which are valuable to me, and also make the cost of a similarly configured system that much more than the Mytek and DAC1. That gives the DAC1 a slight edge. I heard the DAC1 at NAMM and was very impressed.

Of course it was on heaphones only, but they were MD600s, which I also use, so I had a good frame of reference, and I used a CD I was familiar with. And with two headphone inputs, it means overdubs with another musician allow both of us to enjoy the benefit of the DAC1 high quality headphone amp.

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