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RE: Lite

Posted by Thorsten (M) on July 2, 2014 at 03:40:44

In Reply to: Lite posted by jusbe on July 2, 2014 at 02:46:08:

Hi,

Originally some Chinese DIY group, IIRC.

If you are worried about ethos, better avoid.

Also, the technology is extremely basic (ca. 1995), but the basics are decent enough and the killer is the price, which is almost strictly material cost.

These DAC's are sonically not competitive (unless heavily modified) with real high end gear (or even quite low end modern day stuff).

But they compare favourably to the kind of the players the OP mentions, especially the versions that are essentially close copies of Audio Note UK's older generation (Oversampling - think 1995) DAC's that are just Receiver -> Digital Filter -> DAC Chips -> Passive I/V conversion -> SRPP Tube stage.

So at the low price and with the hardware included they make a smashing buy, compared to many an older CD-Player.

That smashing buy is probably (like so many cheap consumer goods) at the cost of blood, sweat and tears by some poor chinese labourers, in some big factory that seems to continue turning them out, a decade or two after the nominal sell by date.

Thor

At 20 bits, you are on the verge of dynamic range covering fly-farts-at-20-feet to intolerable pain. Really, what more could we need?

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