Burr-Brown vs Wolfson

As long as your auditioning, if you can, listen to no a no-oversampling (NOS) DAC as well.

Mrtennis,
Of the CDPs I auditioned today, the ones that I liked most ran the Wolfson : Cambridge 640c V2 and Arcam cd73.

They sounded different from one another but I prefered both over the Burr-Brown equiped Rotel 1072.

Reubent : I now understand -- for I have heard -- how much the whole does not depend solely on the DAC itself.

i am not impressed with 24/96 dacs, or perhaps as reubent has implied, i am not impressed with the implementation of burr brown 24/96 dacs in many cd players.

i find most of them unbalanced in frequency response, exhibiting too much emphasis in the upper mids/lower treble.

what cd players use the wolfson chip ?

i realize there is more to a cd player than the dac chip, such as capacitors in the signal path and op amps.

perhaps, the problem is upsampling, or its implementation.

i own a cd player using a crystal semi conductor dac chip and it exhibits the frequency response errors i cited above.

The implementation is much more important than the brand of DAC. Same goes with for the quantity of DAC chips, although in this case there is a theoretical benefit to increasing the number of chips.

You gotta listen to the players and decide for yourself.

Enjoy,

TIC