Naim CDX2/DAC (￡3390/￡1995)

摘要

From almost anybody else, the launch of a new outboard DAC would rate as one of the audio industry's more mundane events. But a DAC from Nairn Audio - called, yes, the Nairn DAC - is a development of more moment. Not so much for what it is but because it unravels what was, until now, one of the marque's design dogmas.rnNairn was late to the digital audio party, launching its first CD player in 1991, almost a decade after Compact Disc's arrival. Even then, it idiosyncratically refused to equip its silver disc spinners with digital outputs, on the basis that a one-box solution -disc mechanism and digital-to-analogue converter circuitry combined - will always give better sound than a two-box one, where the disc reading and conversion functions are physically separated.