There's a really interesting paper by AKM running around somewhere about using charged capacitors instead of resistors and the benefits. I'm not able to remember the technical details, but the appearance of these DAC chips coincides with my experience of there being a whole new era of DAC's. Aside from ring dacs (i.e. dCS) I wouldn't touch a DAC more than 10 years old.
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@backdoor That DAC was part of the last of the "we don't like Redbook" era DAC's. Since then most good DACs have demonstrated such an improvement with Redbook that you almost don't care about high resolution music anymore. Of course some will always say you must listen to hi rez, but to my mind these legends were due to the older DACs just not doing as well.
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I owned the DAC 8 for six months. Used it with a Wyred4Sound upsampler. I also got a chance to look at the output on an oscilloscope. That DAC had some visible noise issues which at least one reviewer commented about. The DAC 8 is only good with high resolution files. Something more modern will work a lot better with Redbook. I switched to a Mytek Brooklyn and was a lot happier overall. Get something newer. |