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In Reply to: RE: How are you running it? NOS mode or otherwise? posted by marc g. on April 09, 2021 at 13:42:50
I'll claim ignorance here, but I don't believe there are setting options on my older Ares. However FWIW, my friend who has an Ares II uses the over sampling setting combined with the slow filter. Whatever that equates to leaves us both in agreement on the positive qualities I've mentioned on both the Ares and Ares II.
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Yes, OS mode with SLOW filter seems to be the recommended settings for ultimate sound quality with the Ares II.
I'm really excited about this next purchase, lately I've been using an SMSL SU-8 which is of course a Delta-Sigma DAC with ESS chips. Good for the 250$ price but, I'm sure I'm in for a treat with the Denafrips. The SU-8 will migrate to the bedroom system.
It's just crazy how much difference of opinion there is regarding DACs. I have owned both the Ares II and the Metrum Acoustics Octave and found neither especially satisfying. I tried an Audio-GD using 4 PCM 1704 chips. Wow! There's that smooth analog sound that I keep hearing about. The Audio-GD stuff comes up for sale ocasionly in the normal places. There were naysayers on the Audio-GD DACs, but they apparently had never heard one.
I still have one (Master 11) which has four PCM-1704U-K and used to have a Master 7 which had eight.
Wishing now I had kept it as I'm not sure the DENAFRIPS Terminator I now have is all that much better.
40 years from the first audio DACs and it is still an issue.
IMHO the author of that PF article came to some very vague full of crap generalizations then authored far reaching far fetched "theories" to support his flawed conclusions. And the article is 8 years old so I take that into consideration relative to today's DAC technologies. But even back then.....
I've owned a number of CDPs and DACs including some based on ESS, AKM, and at least one with Burr-Brown PCM-1704 DAC chips.
As it turns out my old Accuphase CD player used delta-sigma technology and guess what? It sounded better to me compared to the Cary CDP-306/200 that used 8 R2R Burr-Brown PCM-1704 chips. The Accuphase had all the same wonderful musical virtues as the Cary but with a little better detail and transparency.
I also presently own an AKM based DAC and one with ESS chip. They both sound excellent, right up there with my old Cary and Accuphase CD players that no longer occupy my audio rack.
When I set out to create my "computer audio" system over a decade ago, my goal was to achieve sound quality at least on par with my old Cary or Accuphase players. That goal was achieved several years ago and I don't miss the Burr-Brown R2R PCM-1704 chips in the Cary or the delta-sigma technology in the Accuphase.
As I have mentioned before and believe to this day, it's not as much about the chip of the month as it is how the designer implements and voices the final product - and that has a lot to do with the analog stage, not just the chip.
I purchased a R2R Cd player years ago that can adjust not only different levels of noise injected but also what type of noise. It's an audible improvement I agree. New stuff costing 10x sounds blah, even brief encounters with streaming. I also have a 24bit machine. Designers use to strive for actual improvements not sales. I'm pretty much done buying 'cept for software.
I'll take the hassle and crosstalk of vinyl any day.
The world feeds on crosstalk... Cheers
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