pfarrell Wrote: > P Floding wrote:[color=blue] > I can totally believe that there is an audible difference.
Interestingly, most of the top digital component designers agree that just about all production DAC chips are incapable of using the last 5-6 bits on a 24-bit chip to anywhere near an accuracy that makes those last 5-6 bits useful for D-A conversion. In the D-A conversion process, each subsequent bit requires a semiconductor to have a resistor that is exactly 1/2 the resistance of the previous bit, and by the time you get to the 18th bit, the tolerence levels for testing those resistors at the voltage levels in a DAC chip are just not accurate. They are good enough to do math, but the D-A process is essentially an analog process.... -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26332 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
