Yes. It is a very good DAC. However depends what are you seeking for. It is transparent and strictly on a neutral sound side. Ask KSTR (member), he knows quite a lot about this DAC.
If this were so, as Einstein said, “I would rather choose to be a plumber.”
Fortunately, it is not.
I got Max's meaning from the beginning. It's well laid out for mountainman bob's purposes of capacitor rolling.
Perhaps in supercaps it should be call SSR for Super Series Resistance.
Thanks Pavel,
It would be to see if a little cleaner sound could be had from my elac ds-s101g sever/streamer than it’s internal dac......the elac is nice but I believe it’s a better streamer than dac. Would be plugging the cd in also......this would free up the recievers digital inputs for the smart tv and dvd.
And I’ve been wanting some dsp eq options anyhow.....I would hope this would give a cleaner performance than say, adding a mini dsp?
Also has balanced to try with the Hint.....I know it’s just a ‘long cable run’ thing but would just like to see if it made any difference.
It has a cap on each side of the chip.....I’ll see if I can’t find a pick.
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As PMA said, it’s very good. There is a lot of attention to detail in their products it seems - on the version with the ADC they added another digital filter to correct the passband ripple in the AK557x ADCs built-in filter.
You don’t need to use the DSP as far as I know. I wouldn’t be afraid to use a little EQ anyway.
I’d prefer to buy from RME rather than a “hi-end” company.
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Re "cleanliness" and dynamics and S/N, I would have no doubts about RME ADI and would recommend it. But, again, subjective taste may come into the game and also the rest of the audio chain. If you like transparency, low distortion and neutrality and you have such amplifier and speakers, then RME ADI is the choice. Otherwise, better try to borrow a piece and listen.
I wasn't considering it for driving audiophile headphones just as a DAC but fairy nuff it won't compete with say one of Jams headphone amps.
You believe what you want to believe. Otherwise, routed to /dev/nul as all ad hominem, of course.
Cool thanks, seemed like a ‘sleeper’ and they don’t sling anything but facts on their website....no fluff!
Do they take account of the fins facing each other do not radiate into free space?
But with an output inductor it is a varying magnetic field and aluminum will screen it. Although aluminum is only about 52% as effective as iron.
At 20 hertz the magnetic skin depth in aluminum is just over 1 centimeter.
I suspect a heatsink with 1" fins will pretty much attenuate whatever magnetic field a simple output inductor can muster.
The issue really is how much the magnetic field can find something to couple into. At low frequencies you would require a large loop area to capture significant signal. At higher frequencies the shielding would be dominant.
Also a consideration would be the flux density surrounding the style of inductor. Length of the simple round coil inductor would be the consideration for that.
And on my side I will show you a picture of the curryman DAC which is only a few $ more but was designed by some of the community here. It's I2S in but that is exactly what I need in my system.
Not the location of the crystal and the decoupling around the chip. Now look at your glom it special with a graveyard of through hole parts. Curryman Clock is close to the DAC. Yours appear to to be miles away (bad angle to be sure and I could be wrong there).
So for the glom it on and fsck it up crowd I am sure $50 well spent, but surely starting with something where there is some local knowledge and documentation would seem to be a much better use of your money. Mixed signal requires decoupling to be close as possible to the device and I see little evidence of this having been considered.
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Then you should check out Arthur HIGH-END AUDIO and Arthur Salvatore .
I think his points about THD not THD+N should be measured as the output goes to 0 (so does Earl Geddes BTW) are very interesting. Everyone worries about cleanly driving their speakers out of their surrounds.
Please re-calculate to avoid disgrace. Or what do you mean "just over 1 centimeter", everything >1cm? Then you are right
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Check with JN. 52%, where did you get that number from? At what frequency?
Was anybody mentioning shielding a permanent magnet?
What we are talking here is a 0.062" aluminum sheet used to cool the drivers. Nope, zero magnetic shielding at audio frequencies, through hole construction, always large-ish loops to capture. A sheet of tin can would be much better!
You need to build and measure a power amp to see the magnetic field coupling adding an otherwise perfectly avoidable 2nd harmonic distortion.
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