Is digital headroom unique to Benchmark DAC2?

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Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

In a 1990 Stereophile measurement, a CD player outputs 0dB square signal without clipping, which indicates digital headroom in oversampling filter. Compare Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 in the linked web page.

Do you know any off-the-shelf DAC chips with digital headroom?

I guess Sabre chips do not have digital headroom, since Benchmark is advertising digital attenuation before DAC chip for its DAC2.

0dB square wave measurement (Open in New Window)

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Topic - Is digital headroom unique to Benchmark DAC2? - dave789 14:35:58 07/26/15 (5)

RE: Is digital headroom unique to Benchmark DAC2? - Tony Lauck 10:51:41 07/28/15 (3)

Late to the discussion here - I also use HQPlayer (sometimes). . . - Chris from Lafayette 09:01:11 08/04/15 (2)

RE: Late to the discussion here - I also use HQPlayer (sometimes). . . - Tony Lauck 09:15:26 08/04/15 (1)

Thanks, Tony! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 09:25:19 08/05/15 (0)

You can adjust the Headroom on Mytek 192/DSD Dac. nt - oldmkvi 10:26:44 07/27/15 (0)

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