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As I stated, it was/is my understanding. By all means "school me" if you have something to teach.
The following excerpt from the Schiit website (as well as certain other posts on this forum and in the past) is one reason how/where I have come to my understanding. I grant you, this could be erroneous and if so I’m open to learning. The followimg is from: http://www.schiit.com/products/yggdrasil
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Forget everything you know about DACs. Yggdrasil is the world’s only closed-form multibit DAC, delivering 21 bits of resolution with no guessing anywhere in the digital or analog path. We’ve thrown out delta-sigma D/As and traditional digital filters to preserve the original samples all the way through from input to output.
When doctors are trying to diagnose whether you have gas or cancer from MRI results, or when the military is trying to ensure a missile hits an ammo dump and not a nunnery next door, they don’t use “24 bit” or “32 bit” delta-sigma D/A converters. Instead, they rely on precision, multibit ladder DACs, like the Analog Devices AD5791. This allows them the bit-perfect precision they need for critical applications, rather than the guesswork of a delta-sigma.
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Note the operative word "guessing".
Secondly and in addition, I already have two different delta-sigma dacs within two of my other components (Oppo UDP-205 and Emotive ERC-3). Note the chips are entirely different (one being Sabre ESS-9038 the other Analog Devices AD1955). I’ll grant you, those components do not rise to the level of the components you envision, and I understand there is much more to the overall sound than the dac chip itself. Nevertheless, I find it more than curious and coincidental that despite the fact those chips are different, those two components sound virtually the same (to my ears) and not as "authentic" to my ears and the ears of a close musician friend I had listen to my system, specifically for the purpose of DAC evaluation.
Moreover, I have read numereous posts from folks on other forums (head-fi as one example) who are (purportedly) musicians and "swear" by R2R in comparison to delat-sigma. In fact, many of the "negative sound qualities" I’ve read about delta-sigma in general I can relate to with my own ears.
As I stated, it was/is my understanding. By all means "school me" if you have something to teach.
The following excerpt from the Schiit website (as well as certain other posts on this forum and in the past) is one reason how/where I have come to my understanding. I grant you, this could be erroneous and if so I’m open to learning. The followimg is from: http://www.schiit.com/products/yggdrasil
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Forget everything you know about DACs. Yggdrasil is the world’s only closed-form multibit DAC, delivering 21 bits of resolution with no guessing anywhere in the digital or analog path. We’ve thrown out delta-sigma D/As and traditional digital filters to preserve the original samples all the way through from input to output.
When doctors are trying to diagnose whether you have gas or cancer from MRI results, or when the military is trying to ensure a missile hits an ammo dump and not a nunnery next door, they don’t use “24 bit” or “32 bit” delta-sigma D/A converters. Instead, they rely on precision, multibit ladder DACs, like the Analog Devices AD5791. This allows them the bit-perfect precision they need for critical applications, rather than the guesswork of a delta-sigma.
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Note the operative word "guessing".
Secondly and in addition, I already have two different delta-sigma dacs within two of my other components (Oppo UDP-205 and Emotive ERC-3). Note the chips are entirely different (one being Sabre ESS-9038 the other Analog Devices AD1955). I’ll grant you, those components do not rise to the level of the components you envision, and I understand there is much more to the overall sound than the dac chip itself. Nevertheless, I find it more than curious and coincidental that despite the fact those chips are different, those two components sound virtually the same (to my ears) and not as "authentic" to my ears and the ears of a close musician friend I had listen to my system, specifically for the purpose of DAC evaluation.
Moreover, I have read numereous posts from folks on other forums (head-fi as one example) who are (purportedly) musicians and "swear" by R2R in comparison to delat-sigma. In fact, many of the "negative sound qualities" I’ve read about delta-sigma in general I can relate to with my own ears.
