Thinking about getting a R2R DAC

What happens when you feed them 16/44.1?


Or are you assuming the music is already upsampled as the vast majority of music is not native 24/192. Not just upsampled but filtered as well.



There is not much justification for NOS. None really except for personal preference for artifacts.

You didn't answer the question.

FWIW I used a Chord Qute EX DAC for years and, while it's getting long in the tooth, I still think it's a terrific DAC. I must enjoy artifacts considering an MHDT Lab Pagoda replaced it. Sounds great with Redbook.

It sounds wonderful to you and that is all that matters and yes you very well may enjoy those artifacts though depending on age may not hear the bulk of them. It gives a light and airy sound to redbook. Some love it.  Embrace it but don't confuse it with accurate.

Accurate: meaning an engineering measured number...

accurate: meaning a natural timbre, a feeling of the real instrument for the human ears...

Accurate?

Or these 2 meaning of accurate we conflate them and accurate means first and last a number on a measuring tool...

My nos dac cost me 25 dollars new on a bid and the idea to upgrade it seems ridiculous to me ....

After 2 years i cannot fathom his limit they were not audible to me....This dac improve with my speakers and amplifier embedding controls installation...

I dont doubt that there is better dac than mine, i will call them not more accurate but more musical if they are better, for example the Denafrips pontus in NOS mode is certainly better than my actual dac at his price........ Accuracy without musicality is without interest for me....



« I have 2 masters et they serve me well: my ears» -Groucho Marx


« They are not masters nor servants brother, they are your friends»-Harpo Marx

I can assure you I'm not confused.