Review: High-end Yamaha receiver versus UltraRendu with Audirvana upsampling

[Agoldnear]

This is a nice AI composed piece… However the ‘test’ is flawed and dripping with subjective cognitive-bias… See my response here:

Audirvana Studio Review: Optimizing Sound Quality Through Software

It only shows the difference in the economy of scale not priorities… The ESS chipsets are virtually identical except how sample-rate support… You didn’t connect the RX-A8A directly to your mono-blocks from the pre-amp outputs and you employed the UltraRendu and the IsoRegen in the Benchmark system and not in the RX-A8A setup… Very difficult to remove the subjective bias in this audition… Definitely far from definitive… It is one observation limited by the implementation. I think you can do a …