I won't pursue this debate any more as it is the usual detrimental to the forum To answer questions about my SB device uses - look into my posting history here to see my SB devices & what I have tried to bring to the SB community. Those posts also have some bearing on the OP question in that I addressed the WM8051 DAC chip in the SB duet & made some changes & mods to it - going so far as to extract I2S from the SB duet board to feed to another DAC chip ES9023. Yes, they sounded different & if I can relate my personal experience - the implementation was the biggest significant factor in how they sounded but I also sensed a difference in sound between these two DAC chips.
Nothing scientific, no measurements but there are internal factors to be considered in DAC chips. In my experience, there is a sonic difference when the internal ASRC of the ES9023 is operational compared to when it isn't. Similarly, there is an audible difference between the digital output filters that can be selected on a PCM5102 DAC chip. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jkeny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35192 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103776 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
