the question is whether he bought the dac before or after he first heard it? what is the context of the review?
just say'n.
i also am curious about this new super dac? has the bar been raised?
Howie has been very diplomatic...
Obviously, you don’t had to know it but Lincoln Cheng is the chief editor of Audiotechnique.
Howie could explain better than me what that means...
He has listened Wadax from the first designs to the new ones and has reviewed all of them....
He knows very well how Ref. Dac sounds before the review by his visits to AE, so i can assure you he is writing about his new own Ref. Dac...
As you can read, yes. The bar has being raised, and don’t by a minimal margin...