Just my personal opinion.
If one looks back at Wadax’s earliest documentation, specifically their “Why Wadax” paper from 2009/2010 (well before marketing fluff took over), it’s clear that the musicIC ASIC, which, let’s be honest is Wadax’s only real tangible differentiator, was designed to correct non-linearity in the analog aspects of a system chain, specifically the phono input RIAA equalisation and Wadax’s active speakers response, period. (IMO, an FPGA would have sufficed, Xilinx chips are infinitely more powerful than Wadax's ASIC).
“Correcting digital artefacts” is marketing fluff that seems to appeared much later out of nowhere when streaming service became much more prevalent. However, digital streaming from any Server, whether via Roon/RAAT or UPnP/HTTP over TCP is 100% error corrected right into the digital heart of any DAC, there are no “digital artefacts”. This is an objective verifiable fact.
IMHO, at the end of the day, until Wadax submits to independent objective analysis (even Stereophile/J.Atkinson might suffice), we’ll continue to see all kinds of fantastical claim. Many of which have no basis in reality.
If one looks back at Wadax’s earliest documentation, specifically their “Why Wadax” paper from 2009/2010 (well before marketing fluff took over), it’s clear that the musicIC ASIC, which, let’s be honest is Wadax’s only real tangible differentiator, was designed to correct non-linearity in the analog aspects of a system chain, specifically the phono input RIAA equalisation and Wadax’s active speakers response, period. (IMO, an FPGA would have sufficed, Xilinx chips are infinitely more powerful than Wadax's ASIC).
“Correcting digital artefacts” is marketing fluff that seems to appeared much later out of nowhere when streaming service became much more prevalent. However, digital streaming from any Server, whether via Roon/RAAT or UPnP/HTTP over TCP is 100% error corrected right into the digital heart of any DAC, there are no “digital artefacts”. This is an objective verifiable fact.
IMHO, at the end of the day, until Wadax submits to independent objective analysis (even Stereophile/J.Atkinson might suffice), we’ll continue to see all kinds of fantastical claim. Many of which have no basis in reality.