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RE: How good can a cheap $200 Chinese DAC actually be?

They could be fairly good, from an objective performance standpoint. Many chip vendors have their own engineering team create what is known as a 'reference design' featuring the chip they are attempting to market, so as to reduce the barriers for potential customers to utilize their chip in a commercial product. Such designs often feature excellent measured performance, as they are intended to show the vendor's chip in it's best light.

With most of the engineering work already done for them, all some of these far east vendors need do is replicate the reference design at the lowest cost, a task at which they typically excel. None of this situation usually addresses subjective performamce, which typically involves much more product devlopment time, and therefore, cost.
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Ken Newton



Edits: 04/30/17

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