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Post Subject: Deplete interest in DACsPosted by Romy the Cat on: 2/9/2008

 Telstar wrote:
Because those 20 bit were true 20 bits
No, it won't do true 24 bit ladder, according to the specs on their website. Nonetheless it can be good. At least it is sure that it will accept 24/174.6 format. But I I'm pretty sure that will be hdcd. it's one of their pluses.

Well, perhaps, I do no0t know. Dima for instance (and he has quite high expertise in the subject) claims that there no true 24bit converters available anyhow. BTW, with all advances of HDCD, that I fully appreciate, it makes send only on 16 bit. At 20-24 bit I personally was not able to see any benefits of HDCD of any custom jitters. So, I do not know how advantageous would be the Berkley HDCD is you play 24/88

 Telstar wrote:
Excuse me Romy, which soundcard do you employ and how is your poser? I assume that it is not inside your DAW. How it is connected to the computer and to the DAC? I think that you are using the pro Lavry DAC at the moment.

I use Lynx-16 and it is inside of my DAW. I selected it base upon the minimum on-board processing.  My point was that it one use externals card and if the fw800 is not a bottleneck then the card might have DACs on board.

 Telstar wrote:
For what I have heard, firewire inteface, exp the fw800 is not a bottleneck. I did plan to get a relatively cheap firewire soundcard just to transport the digital signal from the computer to the DAC.

I did not include professional software, but I tried Cubase with a usb DAC and XP and the results were disappointing to say the least.

 Telstar wrote:
I'm pretty sure that Wavelab uses ASIO, depending on your soundcard drivers. I believe that ASIO sounds better in Vista, though. Everything sounds better than in XP Against mac the distance is closer.

The ASIO is the Steinberg’s protocol so I am also sure Wavelab uses it. I did not updated my DAW to Vista yet.

 Telstar wrote:
Have you ever tried high-res files from Linn Records? If so, how do they compare to your own recordings?

I did not try. I did not see among what they have available the music that I were interested.

 Telstar wrote:
No, its not bogus at all Just very spartan design (first case, like mine, was better looking btw). 5V? Not sure, but I read of quite some DACs outputting 2V.Anyway, if you try it, let me know. I think retail price is under 2000€.

Nope, I will not try it, I have no motivations or need to try DACs, I might try, juts for a hell of it the new Berkley DAC to see how it will push against the Lavry DA924. I might also try in future one unique DAC that Dima invented, the one that has no analogue with any other DACs even made my mankind (pure analog DAC!!!!) It pretty my deplete my interest in DACs

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