Metrum Pavane NOS DAC

Coli hi, the Metrum Pavane has old school R2R Ladder Multibit dacs, to my ear I believe R2R Multibit to have it all over the current new Delta Sigma, Bitstream, ESS type d/a convertors when playing Redbook CD's. This is why they are very hard to get and expensive, about 10 x the price.

Cheers George

PS: the Totaldac is also R2R Ladder Multibit.

Cheers George

The Schiit Yggdrasil is also R2R using 4 $75 exotic 20 bit super precision Analog Devices DACs to give "pure 21 bits of info". My friend has one he lightly modded and he says its outrageous. You can see the mods on my website: http://www.tweakaudio.com/EVS-2/Schiit_mod.html
He is in Pocoima, CA and would love to A/B with the Pavane or other fine DAC.

Pity it uses the Analog Devices AD5791 dac as it looks like has it's own I/V stage built into it, leaving no room for I/V experimentation, and there a lot of good work being done in this area by some heavy hitters.

Cheers George

Yeah, my experience with 1bit DSD DAC was... beyond horrible.

6bit R2R Delta Sigma DACs are actually pretty good, Burr-Brown call it "advanced segment", Onkyo receivers/processors got it and it sounds great and is super cheap!

Sabre Delta Sigma DAC sucks, similar to 1bit DACs, sigh.

And finally, fully R2R DACs are heavenly.

Let's see where the DIY Soekris R2R DAC goes, could be awesome sound quality at dirt cheap prices.