NOS DACs - Do They Have Error Correction?

[tmtomh]

This is probably more of a semantic question than a technical one per se. Either way, I'd rather look stupid asking a question than make an assumption and look even stupider making an incorrect assertion.

 

In another forum I've just read a comment from someone claiming that non-oversampling (NOS) DACs don't buffer or do error correction on the signal coming from the transport.

 

My immediate response to this is that it's an overgeneralization - there are multiple types of error correction, including some that could take place in the circuit before the DAC. In other words, my understanding is that a NOS DAC might not have error correction, but error correction is not something that is impossible by definition with a NOS DAC setup.

 

But I could be wrong, of course. More technically adept members of this forum - what say you?

Thanks!

[mansr]

Buffering and error correction have nothing to do with the DAC topology.

[tmtomh]

12 hours ago, mansr said:

Buffering and error correction have nothing to do with the DAC topology.

 

Thanks! That's what I thought.

[TubeLover]

14 hours ago, mansr said:

Buffering and error correction have nothing to do with the DAC topology.

True, but I've heard a few that seem to have "error addition"! 

 

JC

[buonassi]

9 hours ago, TubeLover said:

True, but I've heard a few that seem to have "error addition"! 

 

 this made me chuckle a bit - coming from someone who is a "TubeLover". BTW, I'm just starting my tube journey and kinda like the errors they add. 

[TubeLover]

14 hours ago, buonassi said:

 

 this made me chuckle a bit - coming from someone who is a "TubeLover". BTW, I'm just starting my tube journey and kinda like the errors they add. 

Of course! 

 

JC