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burr-brown vs. sabre vs. ?

just curious if any people here have experience-based impressions the differences various converter chips make, assuming they're roughly the same vintage. I'm looking to buy a digital interface for digitizing LPs; it's a more mass, consumer-driven (not high end) type of market, so features are pretty uniform at any given price point, which makes me wonder if the different chips have a 'sound'. put another way: if you were choosing an interface for audiophile purposes (my preference in 'neutral', when it comes to component choice), would you gravitate towards any particular manufacturer?
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"burr-brown vs. sabre vs. ?"

What you should ask is

Delta Sigma which 1bit, bitstream, and even Sabre are,
vs R2R Ladder Multibit dac chip.

Most of the real high end manufacturers are going back to using R2R ladder Multibit, even some using discrete versions of it. Very expensive chips to manufacture compared to Delta Sigma types.
They say only an R2R Ladder Multibit dac chip has "Bit Perfect Precision" It's all how they are implemented, back in the old days ladder dacs didn't have the great I/V stages we can have today and sounded crap because of it.

Cheers George
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