What I am after is the pursuit of best quality digital, and I have to keep an open mind, even if it is inconvenient to me to me not to stick to an ESS D-A at the moment. I had been hoping that I could just improve the I-V and maybe the analog power supply to get much better performance, but I might be headed into a 'dead-end'. We shall see.
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A SAR is generally better if you need a higher sample rate than sigma delta can provide. That is, until you get into really high sample rates where you need a flash or pipeline ADC.
Schiit uses AD5791 and their secret sauce is the deglitching scheme. It is not better than the ESS, not even close. It's a neat exercise, but utterly pointless.
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It's not good. If you want to get on the sigma-delta hate train because all the cool kids are doing it then go find some discontinued AD1862 or PCM1704. If you just want to try something other than the ESS then try AK4497.
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http://www.hifizine.com/files/2013/11/MyDAC-PCB918.jpg
Pretty much an anti-JC design -
Class II double-insulated construction with plastic enclosure. Powered by SMPS, low-cost CS4351 DAC, cheap Taitien HC49 crystals (for the jitter fetishists), op-amp based analog circuitry.
Cheap and cheerful
. I like it.http://www.hifizine.com/files/2013/11/MyDAC-PCB918.jpg
Pretty much an anti-JC design -
Class II double-insulated construction with plastic enclosure. Powered by SMPS, low-cost CS4351 DAC, cheap Taitien HC49 crystals (for the jitter fetishists), op-amp based analog circuitry.
Cheap and cheerful
Out of the hundred DACs they've made since the 80s, you picked the cheapest $150 example. But that's okay, I've heard it and it sounds pretty good.
Oh, yeah, my bad for picking the ONLY DAC on the DAC page of their website, what was I thinking. It's $369 also from what I can see in the US.
Sounds pretty good yet does everything wrong from the John Curl bible of audio design. Hmm...
It's part of their lifestyle MyRange. However, they have CD players in the several thousand dollar range. But you're doing what you've been doing, so please carry on by all means. But it does sound good ��
Honestly, I can't think of anything better on the market right now than the vintage top loading Micromega CD players with CDM0, or CDM1 transports. And their DACs from the 90s were fantastic as well. But I'm no digital fan, if anything, I think digital today sounds worse than 20-30 years ago.
When I listen to Michell Gyro SE or SME Model 10, the world is right.
Well, the Nakamichi OMS-5 / 7 was very good, and the Denon DCD-S10 (DCD-3000) was also more than excellent. Teac had some very nice products and the new Bryston I just heard is easily superior as well. Any of the Denon DCD-x560 players also made the grade, and once I've "played" inside they are even better.
There was a lot more out there that was better too. Take your pick. Notice that these are all "mid-fi machines", but don't let that fool you!
-Chris
There was a lot more out there that was better too. Take your pick. Notice that these are all "mid-fi machines", but don't let that fool you!
-Chris
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