Tam Lin
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Look at Cardas Golden Reference, it fits you requirements precisly. Current used prices are very reasonable.
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Audiophiles often own crap audio systems that don't sound like live music. Apparently, that's not their objective. Some audiophile even brag that they never listen to live music.
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How about the person who engages in music as a musician? The people who create the music that you audiophiles listen to.
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Why purchase hi-rez PCM files if upsampling with HQPlayer?
Tam Lin replied to jiminlogansquare's topic in General Forum
Up-sampling reduces the size of the inter-sample step, which reduces the setting time. Settling time is a well know issue with multi-bit PCM DACs but if also effects delta-sigma DACs as it relates to the I/V performance. In addition to the above, I use resampling to reduce dither noise. Dither is added to mask quantization noise. That noise is a problem in the mathematics of sampling theory and certain laboratory tests, but not in the real world of recording acoustic sounds with microphones. The ambient noise in the recording venue plus the self-noise of the microphones and their pre-amps is sufficient to decouple the quantization noise. The range of quantization noise is +/- 1/2 LSB. The range of TPD dither is +/- 3 LSB. Although dither, by itself, is considered inaudible, its effect on the signal is not. Every bit that carries the inaudible dither noise is one less bit available to carry the audible signal. My de-dither process first resamples to 2.8226M or 3.072M, depending on the input ample rate, and then to the highest rate my PCM DAC will accept. Just resampling from 44.1K to 176.4K is beneficial, but going up to the DSD rate and back down effectively homogenizes the dither noise. -
32 bit *only* USB DACs and Mac OS
Tam Lin replied to Samuel T Cogley's topic in DAC - Digital to Analog Conversion
If that's true, why do you use a USB connected DAC? USB Audio is not bit perfect.