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I know about Audionote's products. Can you please direct me to other mfrs/models that fall in this category?
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For those who know their reputation as proponents of upsampling but perhaps not the products in detail, their DACs do not upsample. You have to buy another box for that. These DACS will, of course, handle various forms of upsampled data when it's sent to them.
The DCS Elgar uses a crazy "5-bit 64x oversampling" filter. Basically a cross between one-bit and standard filtering.I think had DCS' DACs used no or simpler filtering, "24/96 upsampling" would have been DOA.... I personally think if asynchronous upsampling improves the sound of DAC, the base design of the DAC isn't so hot.
A number of these look like glorified (but maybe great) DIY products; some appear to be more aimed at the digital than the analogue part of the DAC market; some appear to be non-products that may or may not exist.
The Ack dAck is a solid mature product. I've owned both the version 1 and 2. I'm listening to my version 2 right now and really enjoy it. Hard to beat for the money especially if you find a used on on Audiogon.
Yeah some are DIY or assembled or both like the Audio Sector Dac.I know this glorified Dac put an Arcam DV27 in its place.LOL
It wasn't about quality. It was about availability. DIY stuff that goes commercial is often hard to find/poorly supported, etc. Too bad but true.
I understand..but this unit is very well supported.Peter Daniel's gear comes with a lifetime warranty...Very hard to beat.
lifetime of the company? :-)
LOL.. I guess you can say that.Just like any other company that offers a lifetime warranty.Although the ones that offer it are far and few between ;-).How many companies also have a money back guarantee on all custom work?
Big J.
Here are some great one...Audio Mirror D1 $500-ish retail (and new D2 that has some part upgrades to the stock DAC-AH board inside it)
Lite Audio DAC-AH ($175 retail) awesome for the money
They feature 8 paralleled TDA1543 DAC's!
They are the same exact board inside of each unit except the Audio Mirror has spike feet, gold mirror finish lid and auricaps for output coupling (all for about $350 more than the DAC-AH).
The pic is the Audio Sector Premium Dac 1.Also you have Scott Nixon Dacs.
NT
A very serious product despite the name.
I am really pleased with the Audio Mirror DAC. Visit www.audiomirror.com for more details. Audio Mirror sells the DAC on Audiogon for approximately $580.00.
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