I just read over at audiogon a discussion of the Transporter and its AKM4396 converter chip. Someone made the comment that it is a great D to A chip, but that other DAC makers are taking it further by using more than one per channel. Evidently APL is using the same AKM4396 chip but using SIX of them per channel.
This got me to remembering reading a few years ago about the possibility of improving DAC performance by piggybacking the D to A chips -- actually placing an identical D to A chip above the one already on the board and simply soldering its corresponding leads to the one below. Hmmmmmm.... Not that I am ready to do this to my Transporter right out of the box. And, I am not making any assumptions that this is the way APL is implementing its multiple chips per channel. But, is this piggyback approach feasible in Transporter and would it bring sonic benefits? Had you guys at SD tried or considered using multiple AKM4396's per channel? If so, what were your findings? -- atkinsonrr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atkinsonrr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7214 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27910 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
