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About Wayne Tapia
Expertise
Home Theater Audio Cabling (from HDMI to speaker cable). DO NOT ask me car audio questions. It is not my forte, and I will not answer them.

Experience
I am a Certified Audio Engineer that also works in the A/V cabling industry. I would like to dispel the myths and outright lies about the cables that connect your home theater systems together. Here's a hint - many of you have been misled out of hundreds of dollars for cabling systems.

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ASCAP AES

Education/Credentials
Audio Recording Technology Institute Vancouver Film School

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Audio Systems - Question reg 128kbps MP3 with a DAC

Expert: Wayne Tapia - 11/6/2009

Question
Hello,

I have most of my music collection in the form of 128kbps . I plan to use a chinese DAC after hearing that a DAC improves the sound quality. Does it really improve sound quality ?

Regards,
CK

Answer
It depends on the quality of the DAC. I've heard good and bad conversion quality.
One thing to remember also is that regardless of the sample rate of the mp3, it is a very lossy format, and no DAC will replace the frequencies that were truncated during compression.

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