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April 2, 2020, 1:18pm
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nyj585:
The SMSL M300 MKII and the Topping D50s seem to be the best choices for DAC based on measurements. I know measurements are kind of a touchy subject for many, but I think in the realm of DACs there isn’t much besides measurements as it’s literally turning digital bits into analog signal via math. They should also theoretically do the least amount of audible change when comparing competent DACs
So my take is with budget setups, just grab a nice clean dac and you are good to go, but they to sound different than each other depending on how high or low you go in the range
Actually yesterday this same thing was mentioned lol, here is a response from a similar question from polygon
those bits need to be converted into an analog signal.
There are several ways to do that the common cheap solution is what’s called a Delta Sigma DAC, in theory this involves modulating a single bit at much higher frequency than the sampling rate. In practice some of the top bits are directly decoded using a resistor ladder. But to do this the input signal needs to be both over-sampled and filtered (different DAC’s do this differently).
In addition you don’t just squirt the output of the DAC c…
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