seanadams Wrote: > Good question - definitely not like tubes! Of course you could add a > tube preamp if that's what you want. > > However, I don't think I could point to some existing DAC on the market > and say "it'll sound like that". The thing is, not only is this a new > DAC chip with a much more accurate high-end than was available before, > but this design has taken power supply regulation and jitter control to > a level way beyond any commercial designs I've looked at - even the > Benchmark, which is a very well designed DAC. There is just no existing > design which is close enough. > > Subjectively speaking, you should simply find it natural and realistic. > There is virtually no noise and no "special character" added to it - the > goal is to be as true as possible to the recording.
Sean, you sure did a great job with this unit. At the price piont I would rate it as a pure bargain. Did you use my sugestion of having upsampling rate conversion on the digital out? If so what chip did you use? Anthony -- aberdeencomponents ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aberdeencomponents's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25773 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
