RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac

Posted by Roseval (A) on May 9, 2017 at 06:20:12

In Reply to: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac posted by digepix on May 9, 2017 at 05:28:35:

"I know asynchronous data transfer is all the rage to reduce jitter bt some say it truncates the word length and so it is no longer bit perfect."

USB has 3 synchronization modes, async is the best of them.
This has nothing to do with word length.

Older models might be limited to 24 bit / 96 kHz
Very old models and today's very cheap ones might support 16 bit /44/48 only.
A modern USB interface support PCM up to 768 kHz 32-bit and up to DSD512

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Topic - Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - digepix 05:28:35 05/09/17 (20)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - awesterner 02:12:57 05/13/17 (0)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - triodesteve 15:32:31 05/10/17 (2)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - digepix 15:54:49 05/10/17 (1)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - triodesteve 16:01:00 05/10/17 (0)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - Dynobot 13:33:08 05/09/17 (3)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - digepix 14:30:45 05/09/17 (2)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - Dynobot 15:39:18 05/09/17 (0)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - Dynobot 14:47:59 05/09/17 (0)

I went from a Scott Nixon to - G Squared 11:24:10 05/09/17 (1)

RE: I went from a Scott Nixon to - digepix 12:35:04 05/09/17 (0)

The Best Way is - E-Stat 07:52:38 05/09/17 (8)

borrow a newer or presumably "better" unit - Dynobot 13:29:00 05/09/17 (0)

+1 Exactly right - AbeCollins 08:24:45 05/09/17 (6)

RE: +1 Exactly right - Ivan303 09:16:50 05/09/17 (5)

Wow! - E-Stat 13:09:54 05/09/17 (1)

Not a lot of chip amps in the audio path... - Ivan303 16:06:21 05/09/17 (0)

RE: +1 Exactly right - ahendler 11:32:00 05/09/17 (2)

Sure is a great dac - Dynobot 13:31:20 05/09/17 (1)

Master 7 stays in the main system with USB input but... - Ivan303 16:17:47 05/09/17 (0)

RE: Buy a new dac or stay with my older ac - Roseval 06:20:12 05/09/17 (0)

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