posted 23 January 2001 20:30            

If I compare the converters, I've heard converters from dCS and Apogee, if money is no object go for dC$$$ and for the other companies it's a matter of taste. Most of the time it's like "the reputation of the brand name," "the convenience features," or "what I read in a review." And my answer to the Capy 320 is strikingly concise: "The sound." And that's what it is all about...The sound.

Armand.

posted 25 January 2001 07:34            

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Originally posted by chuck welti:
Can SSC comment on the quality of the AD/DA converters on the capybara?

How do they compare to an outboard unit such as a Troisi or apoggee converter?

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I would actually place the converters in the Kyma in a different catagory than the DCS; The DCS sounds much more colored to me than the Kyma. Kyma sounds more like a Prism in that both sound relitively "precise", and tend to go toward exactly reproducing the input signal rather than coloring it. I am not saying that the Kyma's sound as nice as the Prism. Then again, the Prism costs more for an 8 ch A/D/A as an 8 channel Kyma which, of course, includes quite a lot of unbelieveabley acessable DSP power along with those 8 channels of A/D/A.
I would put the Troisi in the same geneal camp as the DCS in this case and compare the Kyma to the Troisi in the same way. Ditto on the price difference, too.
I suppose I could send my Kyma to Bob Katz and ask him to test it in comparison of those TC converters he was recently freaking out about.... ;-)

Vance Galloway