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Schiit's spin

Agree. It would be painstakingly difficult and expensive to source extremely high precision discrete resistors especially for the lower significant bits.... AND have them all track precisely over temperature. Laser trimmed on a chip would be better all around. Going fully 'discrete' is more of a novelty in this day and age, IMHO.

Spinning Schiit:

"Forget everything you know about DACs. Yggdrasil is the world's only closed-form multibit DAC, delivering 21 bits of resolution with no guessing anywhere in the digital or analog path. We've thrown out delta-sigma D/As and traditional digital filters to preserve the original samples all the way through from input to output. Let's take a closer look:

21 Bits, No Guessing: Mission-Critical D/A Technology
When doctors are trying to diagnose whether you have gas or cancer from MRI results, or when the military is trying to ensure a missile hits an ammo dump and not a nunnery next door, they don't use "24 bit" or "32 bit" delta-sigma D/A converters. Instead, they rely on precision, multibit ladder DACs, like the Analog Devices AD5791. This allows them the bit-perfect precision they need for critical applications, rather than the guesswork of a delta-sigma. We chose this same critical technology for Yggdrasil. Following these unique D/A converters are sophisticated discrete JFET buffers and summers."





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