Seeking Advice on NOS DAC

"most NOS chips support 24/96"
That's true, thanks.

lowrider57
 I like seeing the quality parts being used, but no hirez from audio files?

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.

That’s right George, Redbook is my priority. And I don’t wish to convert PCM to DSD.

Ok, look for dacs and cdp's that use the last commercial R2R Multibit from this list the Burr Brown "PCM1704"  (big so let it load and close popups)
http://vasiltech.narod.ru/CD-Player-DAC-Transport.htm

Or you can go discrete R2R.

Cheers George 

Link to the DOGE7

http://www.doge.audio/products/tube-dac/doge-7-tube-dac/