R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions
And look at that, he’s still going and using I think an R2R d/a conversion still, the one AMR also uses in their DP-777 dac the TDA1305 which was originally made by Philips for Discman use!!!! for it’s low power consumption I believe. https://www.ebay.com/itm/DAC-kit-TDA1305-TDA1315-Multi-input-USB-Optical-Coaxial/322891865956?hash=i... Cheers George |
...he’s still going and using I think an R2R d/a conversion still, the one AMR also uses in their DP-777 dac the TDA1305 which was originally made by Philips for Discman use!!!!Looks as though you've confused UDA1305 with TDA1305. The former is most likely a re-marking of TDA1545 (or something similar like TDA1387). An earlier design than TDA1305 which has some lack-lustre opamps on-board. TDA1305 is definitely not R2R (oversampled design) but UDA1305 probably would qualify as that. |
@chorus Lumin streamers don't rip and store. For that you'd need to use a computer (Lumin sells an L1 NAS, but any computer or NAS will work). Aurender and Innuos both have a few models that include a CD drive for ripping and internal drives for storage. But you're going to be paying more than if you ripped and stored your music on your existing computer. The least expensive ripper + streamer option is probably the Bluesound VAULT 2i. |
I had a Moodlab "Concept" dac years ago. As far as I know this used a simple R2R dac, and it had no oversampling and no output filter. I bought it out of curiosity, to see just how bad it would sound. I thought it sounded fine. Nothing special, nothing that particularly stood out to me compared to my CD player or DVD player. I thought I perceived some slight difference with it being ever so slightly brighter and lighter sounding, but couldn't say that for sure, and definitely couldn't say if it was better or worse. |
