Getting the bits right isn’t the whole story to be sure. But you have to start there. If the CD Illumination guy in Australia was messing with the bits or the Regen box did a little DSP on the bits coming from my recordings, I would be upset. What I deliver in my mixes and masters is what the artist and I want. There shouldn’t be boxes out there mucking about with my sound. Perhaps we should think of the Regen like the new Meridian MQA process. It allows the best possible signal integrity to pass from the source to the DAC. It minimizes any potential loss in fidelity rather than making any enhancements. I can get behind that notion.<\/p>\n
The lengthy discussion of what the Regen actually does makes for an interesting read. Yes, I did read the various posts, papers, and presentations about the inner workings of USB. I have no doubt that Alex and John, the designer of the Regen believe that they’ve designed, built, and are selling a device that improves the user listening experience. And clearly, they have a loyal following of customers that believe it too. I’m not one of them.<\/p>\n
I listened intently using what I consider to be one of the best sounding high-end DACs through my system (putting the Benchmark DAC2 HGC in the “low-to-middle range of DACs” as Alex wrote in his comments is unkind and untrue…just ask a bunch of the best studios in Los Angeles what they use.). I listened to a selection of music that won the 2002 “Demmy” award from the Consumer Electronics Association…a track that I’ve heard many hundreds of times. The sound didn’t change when the data stream was sent through the Regent box. <\/p>\n
Believe whom you want. I’ve made my career in the professional music engineering business for over 35 years. I’ve mastered hundreds of successful albums for others in addition to my own AIX Records. I know the sound of my system and I failed to perceive any change…subtle or not…when using the Regen. That doesn’t mean that a graphic showing improved signal integrity isn’t real or that the explanations don’t have merit. What it means is whether the processing that the Regen box is doing matters in the recreation of the data stream into the analog signals that we experience. You’ll have to judge for yourself. In my opinion there are a lot more cost effective ways to dramatically improve the fidelity of your system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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