Difference between ESS Sabre Burr Brown Wolfson DACs

Implementation matters more.

In the older generations, BB was my favorite. In some modern implementations as well.
One thing to listen for, the best modern DAC's are TERRIFIC with Redbook playback. The mediocre one's only sound great with 96/24 or better.

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I still prefer R2R in a DAC over the chip.  Happy Listening.

Anyone know what chip the new Amazon Echo Link uses? It claims to be “hi-fi.”

Agree with bigkidz. Give me an organic, lush, analog sounding r2r dac any day over a chip dac. 

There’s a lot of DAC’s with ESS chips in designs having a crappy implementation.