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In Reply to: "They were very expensive to buy..." posted by AbeCollins on February 14, 2024 at 22:22:08:
Of course they were available...relatively new but available. There was probably a good decade or more of overlap before the last of the R2R chips were discontinued (some may still be made...not sure).
I once saw the prices in a digikey or Mouser catalog (can't remember anymore) where a BB PCM63K chip was $70 and a BB PCM1792 chip (a pretty good D/S chip) was like $5.
The push away from R2R had more to do I think with cost cutting than sound quality.
Are modern D/S chips better than the best R2R chips? I don't think so when it comes to sounding like more realistic. You can throw all the numbers you want at it and I won't disagree that the modern D/S DACs all measure much better. So what? Does that lead to unequivocal better sound? Not at all. Many will prefer the R2R as more natural sounding.
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