Digital Drive: RE: There is no Infamous ESS/SABRE Glare.... just bad DACs by John Elison Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

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Posted by John Elison ( A ) on March 14, 2024 at 07:04:28

In Reply to: RE: There is no Infamous ESS/SABRE Glare.... just bad DACs posted by AbeCollins on March 14, 2024 at 06:34:04:

Well, it wasn't a speedy switch-over. The AKM factory fire put FiiO out of business for over six months. It took a while to redesign their digital players for ESS DACs, but they did it and their players sound better now with ESS DACs.

I thought they would go back to AKM after AKM recovered, but so far, FiiO is sticking with ESS. I still really like the sound of my old M15 'Flagship' DAP with AK4499EQ DACs, but there's no question that the new R9 'Flagship' sounds noticeably better with ES9938PRO DACs. These chips provide eight DACs per channel connected in parallel. There's absolutely no noise and the sound quality is spectacular. Moreover, the functionality of the R9 is unsurpassed. It's like a Swiss army knife. It does virtually everything digital you can imagine at a price of only $1499. And it does everything very well. It's the heart of my new digital system.

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