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High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it.

Something that came as a surprise to me is how good DAC's have gotten over the past 5-10 years.

Before then, there was a consistent, marked improvement going from Redbook (44.1/16) to 96/24 or higher.

The modern DAC, the best of them, no longer do this. The Redbook playback is so good high resolution is almost not needed. Anyone else notice this?
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@erik_squires 

thanks for the radio tip. I will check it out!


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@erik_squires 

I had a very weird experience last weekend. My friend has a DIY dac. In it was a NOS TDA1543 Philips chip hooked on a  a Rasberry pi with i2s. It could only play 16/44. The power supply was a very cheap phone charger with an extra usb cable in the charger (2nd power supply). I looked at the psu and my thoughts were. "are we going to listen to music through this?"  

When the music started playing i fell off the couch in disbelieve. The music was so pure, tangible. It was audiophile heaven......  He paid €300,- for this setup. It sounded like a million bucks.  

I'm seriously thinking to sell my own dac after hearing his. 


My own stuff is no slouch either. and i buy new cd's constantly! 

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