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In Reply to: RE: New DAC using ESS 9038 chip. posted by DAVID on January 14, 2017 at 12:58:08
I'm waiting for the new Oppo Sonica DAC to come out. It also uses the new ESS 9038Pro DAC chip and it's supposed to be priced at $799. The best part about it is its ability to play digital files directly from a USB hard drive. In other words, it's a digital player, DAC and preamp all rolled into one. I hope Oppo delivers.
Best regards,
John Elison
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lots of things to change to make this thing sound really good. AC power problems, ordinary rectifier diodes, no damping on heatsinks, bad sounding resistors and electrolytic caps, output coupling caps it does not need, etc. etc. I will have a field day modding this thing. The basics are good however, so with mods this will sound pretty good. Does not look like it has options for various digital filters nor does it have I2S input which gives better sound than straight usb......anotherwords, no matter what you do, this will never be world class. But, at $799 it is a real bargain for all the features and sonic possibilities with modding. And it is cute too.
Well, my BDP-105D sound good to me so I would probably be happy. If the new UDP-205 accepts DSD(128) directly from a hard drive, I might buy it instead. Of course, it no longer uses ESS DACs so maybe I should buy the Sonica DAC instead. Decisions, decisions! ;-)
Best regards,
John Elison
The Sonica can only take DSD64 via its usb input....I imagine the same will be for the 205. Why do you say the 205 no longer uses ESS chips? I see no reference to what chips they will use except everyones guess is that it will be the ESS9038 just like the Sonica. The 203 now uses an AKM multichannel DAC instead of the Cirrus DAC the 103 used.
> The Sonica can only take DSD64 via its usb input....I imagine the same will be for the 205.
Well, in that case, I guess I don't want either one of them. Oh, well.
> Why do you say the 205 no longer uses ESS chips?
I thought the 103 and the 105 used the same ESS DAC chip. Therefore, I expected the 205 to use the same AKM DAC as the 203. I guess I was wrong.
Sorry!
John Elison
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