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Re: How good is the Pioneer "Ligato" DAC chip

Posted by ehider on July 2, 2006 at 12:18:18

In Reply to: How good is the Pioneer "Ligato" DAC chip posted by DWPC on June 29, 2006 at 11:44:58:

The Legato chip was more of a marketing scheme than many audiophiles realize. Shortly after it was Pioneer's "breakthrough" DAC, the Elite group made their cost no object Player called the PD-93. This player was a "tour de force" of the players in terms of absolute no holds bar construction. A fully suspended transport, two separate power supply systems with trasformers that de-coupled behind the player on their own chassis, everything in the player copper wrapped and/or plated (even the capacitors!) and a full diecast chassis with trays to encapsulate both channels separately. Not even Sony's greatest players ever approached this sort of build qualitu. To this day it was the quietest CD player or DAC I've ever owned too. (At last count I'm on my 14th digital front end). Here's the kicker - This player had Burr Brown K select 63 DACs in it instead of the Legato! So much for their "breakthrough" Legato DAC chipset ;-)

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