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Reference DAC Module - Discrete R-2R Sign Magnitude 24 bit 384 KHz

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#9,301
Please, read carefully.

I don't down anyone, there are others who write that Totaldac and MSB Tech are incompetent.
I have never said that Soeren is incompetent, I have only said that in my opinion some of the design choices he made are wrong, starting with the Si570.

And I don't up my design, I have never named my projects as "ultimate" or "reference", although they probably are.
A little humility would be needed.
 
#9,303
soekris said:
If nobody haven't noticed yet, then SBAF have a dac2541, you can get an idea on how next gen boards will sound like....

Soekris DAC2541 Review And Measurements | Super Best Audio Friends
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All the differences people are are describing in that thread between Soekris and Schiit converters I have heard in my DAM1021 by using different filters.

The filters that sound best also provide the least difference in DAAD recordings wrt to the unconverted original file.
 
#9,309
No one really knows as it has never been officially described in a product manual from the vendor.

Strong indications however indicate that yes, it's possible by:

- Enter Download in the umanager
- Use "send file" (or similar) in usedd terminal program
- wait for success message
- power on/off

Verify with "filters all"...

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#9,311
Hi all again. If I've understood well, dam1021 is able to natively handle dsd256 format. So trying to play dsd256 files, I get from foobar2000 this message: sample rate of 705600 hz not supported by this device. Am I mistaking something? The usb interface is the xmos 384khz dxd dsd256.

Thank you,
Gaetano.
 
#9,312
ghitus said:
So trying to play dsd256 files, I get from foobar2000 this message: sample rate of 705600 hz not supported by this device.
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The message is clearly coming from your USB board driver and has nothing to do with the dac. Something somewhere is clearly misconfigured, most likely in Foobar.

Another mystery is why one would want to play DSD through a PCM dac. Yes, it can be done, but why?
 
#9,316
To be honest, I have several SACD images I can listen to. So, cause it's possible to setup foobar in a way that it gives straightly DSD to dam, which converts it to PCM (being a ladder resistors DAC, right?), my question is: why not use a feature which is specified by Soren in its site? I have to say that I have no DSD256 files (but one I used for the test), but only DSD64. But I'm curious and since Soren specified that native DSD256 files can be handled, I have tried to do that (with no success). By the way, I use the SACD component in foobar, the foo out asio component and asio proxy. I tried also, just for test, to oversample from DSD64 to DSD128 and to DSD256. The former worked, the latter no. Surely there will be something which I set in a wrong way.


Gaetano.
 
#9,317
ghitus said:
Hi all again. If I've understood well, dam1021 is able to natively handle dsd256 format. So trying to play dsd256 files, I get from foobar2000 this message: sample rate of 705600 hz not supported by this device. Am I mistaking something? The usb interface is the xmos 384khz dxd dsd256.

Thank you,
Gaetano.
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Make sure you output pure DSD, not DSD over PCM which would double the bit rate, to more than the hardware can do.... There is probably a setting somewhere in foobar....
 
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