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In Reply to: RE: Best processors -but best tech ? Accurate info??? posted by Jeff Starr on February 24, 2017 at 16:42:05
There are probably a *hundred* processors I left out. Units that use FPGAs are low-bit devices. In my piece, I listed world-beating processors that use ladders in architecture - 16 bit pure-resistors.As already indicated (below), implementation has been the excuse for 20 years. It no longer works - something is happening with discrete-ladders. I'm just reporting the trend...
Edits: 02/24/17Follow Ups:
"But this product is not alone, as (most other) world's best DACs are similar. Whether the Chord Dave, EMM DA2, Simaudio 780D, Berkeley Alpha Ref, DCS DACs, Gryphon Kalliope -all of these use 1 to 6 bit (cheap) D-to-A converters, with lots of band-aide processing."
The DACs I commented on don't use "cheap" converters. That is all I am saying.
DCS may not be 'cheap'...6-bit hybrids that have carefully-written algorithms can sound wonderful. It just seems strange that a (new) group of top-rated processors use an old-fashioned approach.
Beyond conversion, there's a lot of hype these days of 'Quad DSD'. But if I understand the speeds correctly, this is slow (256fs) compared what many were doing 12 years ago, when 768fs came out.
(2) points that question the technical advance of today's processors.
Edits: 02/25/17 02/25/17
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