sanderweb
Established Member
You are absolutely correct. However do we know what the difference is between my generation of RP and the current?
And to complicate the issue further; my first step was to compare a modern TDAI machine directly with RP1 + my dac + my preamp. The latter clearly sounded better to my ears, it wasn't a small difference and thats despite multiple additional AD DA conversions.
So in order in ascending order
1) TDAI sounded the worst (I don't mean it sounds bad by an means, it's just the ranking)
2) My Legacy RP1 + my dac + my preamp + my amp
3) Trinnov + my dac + my preamp + my amp
This is just what I've found in my system and to my ears, and I don't have golden ears. However it's not a scientific experiment conducted under lab conditions so all manner of known unknowns and unknown unknowns lol exist.
Make of the whole thing what you will or even ignore the whole thing as garbage (a valid position btw). However knowing my system, my room and my music very well I have come to the conclusion that Trinnov when paired with other high level electronics sounds significantly better the a RP1 with the same electronics or a TDAI.
Regards
I always learned that if you want to compare, only change one element in the chain. You could have tried the modern TDAI with your DAC, preamp and amp and my expectation is that with this setup you wouldn't doubt that RoomPerfect has not evolved a lot. There is a lot of processing power needed for DRC and this is much more easily and less costly implemented nowadays compared to over ten years ago. And this is only one aspect.