In Reply to: RE: Delta-Sigma vs. R2R posted by AbeCollins on February 12, 2024 at 10:01:28:
I agree that people should consider the whole and buy what they like that they think is good value.The hard part of converting from digital to analog is the DAC (!) and not many brands can do, or are willing to do that in-house so they rely on integrated DAC solutions. In what I think is marketing genius, they persuade their customers that it is what goes around the DAC chip that is most important because that is the easy stuff they can do and not the hard stuff inside the DAC chip. And smaller companies with smaller volumes need some way to justify their higher prices that their special sauce is more special.
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- Voicing shmoicing - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 02/12/2411:04:16 02/12/24 (28)
- Most manufacturers don't talk about it but voicing is real..... - AbeCollins 12:10:08 02/12/24 (27)
- R2R is not just discrete! - morricab 06:55:57 02/14/24 (4)
- Not all but many are discrete - RE: R2R is not just discrete! - AbeCollins 12:42:38 02/15/24 (3)
- RE: Not all but many are discrete - RE: R2R is not just discrete! - morricab 07:10:24 02/16/24 (2)
- RE: Not all but many are discrete - RE: R2R is not just discrete! - AbeCollins 13:37:58 02/16/24 (1)
- RE: Not all but many are discrete - RE: R2R is not just discrete! - morricab 13:20:21 02/18/24 (0)
- RE: Most manufacturers don't talk about it but voicing is real..... - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 15:34:51 02/12/24 (20)
- RE: Most manufacturers don't talk about it but voicing is real..... - morricab 06:59:09 02/14/24 (0)
- RE: Most manufacturers don't talk about it but voicing is real..... - E-Stat 13:21:28 02/13/24 (16)
- RE: Most manufacturers don't talk about it but voicing is real..... - morricab 07:04:35 02/14/24 (0)
- More an audiophile laundry list than insight - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 16:41:52 02/13/24 (14)
- For the past fifty years - E-Stat 06:32:38 02/14/24 (13)
- A stiff PSU is a good goal but there are no linear circuits that are not also 'corrected' in some way (nt) - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 09:46:50 02/14/24 (12)
- Hence the use of the term "minimum" - E-Stat 13:28:59 02/14/24 (11)
- Feedback conundrum - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 16:29:31 02/14/24 (10)
- Hence the use of the term "applied" - E-Stat 06:21:15 02/15/24 (0)
- RE: Feedback - Part 4 - tketcham 04:35:09 02/15/24 (7)
- A nice summary and exemplary non-guruship - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 11:45:33 02/15/24 (0)
- RE: Feedback - Part 4 - Story 06:09:53 02/15/24 (5)
- RE: Feedback - Part 4 - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 11:56:24 02/15/24 (4)
- RE: Feedback - Part 4 - morricab 07:24:38 02/16/24 (3)
- Sort of-ish - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 14:52:23 02/16/24 (2)
- RE: Sort of-ish - morricab 13:14:23 02/18/24 (1)
- RE: Sort of-ish - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 00:01:37 02/19/24 (0)
- RE: Feedback conundrum - AbeCollins 22:25:53 02/14/24 (0)
- RE: Most manufacturers don't talk about it but voicing is real..... - AbeCollins 20:12:37 02/12/24 (1)
- RE: Most manufacturers don't talk about it but voicing is real..... - morricab 07:07:55 02/14/24 (0)
- +1! nt - chocolate_lover 13:14:39 02/12/24 (0)