Seeking Advice on NOS DAC
@lowrider57 , Upsampling will not hurt, it will usually help, and most NOS chips support 24/96. Simpler to filter this too. Depends on the vintage of the D/A chip though. If its a TDA1543 chip, maybe 44.1 would be better. You can also get the Synchro-Mesh in 44.1 flavor at minimal cost and select 16-bit. Also great sounding. I would recommend 24/96 standard version if the D/A supports it. 30-day money-back. Steve N. Empirical Audio |
lowrider57 But you did say in your first post. " I’m thinking NOS due to my large collection of Redbook CD’s." To me pcm (redbook) once converted right, makes me think hi-rez is BS. You can get discrete R2R ladder dacs, that can convert native DSD high-rez, but they are very expensive at the moment, but there are more and more coming onto the market, which could see the price come down. Remember what MoJo Music says: " When a PCM file is played on a native DSD single-bit converter, the single-bit DAC chip has to convert the PCM to DSD in real-time. This is one of the major reasons people claim DSD sounds better than PCM, when in fact, it is just that the chip in most modern single-bit DACs do a poor job of decoding PCM." Cheers George |
That’s right George, Redbook is my priority. And I don’t wish to convert PCM to DSD. But the NOS DACs Ive been looking at will play 24/96 or 24/192 downloads from my hard drive thru USB. I know, I know it’s possible they won’t sound any different than 16/44.1. Computer audio is secondary to me, but I’ve been adding music to my library. And some downloads are misrepresented as hirez, but I'd like to explore this new to me music. |
