Comments on: Mid-priced DACs – how to choose https://www.hifizine.com/2013/03/mid-priced-dacs-how-to-choose/ The enthusiast's audio webzine Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:46:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: OMas https://www.hifizine.com/2013/03/mid-priced-dacs-how-to-choose/comment-page-1/#comment-2578 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 02:26:55 +0000 http://www.hifizine.com/?p=6106#comment-2578 Hi 405line,

Thanks for dropping by…Like any technology, technique or topology, blame the designer. Oversampling in and of itself is no “better” than NOS. In the hands of a talented engineer or team, each can really shine. The converse is also true; epic fail is just as likely. I like my DACs to play it straight; not messing with the sample rate of the source. That’s partially dogma, part philosophy, and part experience.
That said, our hobby comes down to the fundamental, “What do _you_ like?” After all, it’s about enjoying your music.

All the best,
OMas

]]> By: 405line https://www.hifizine.com/2013/03/mid-priced-dacs-how-to-choose/comment-page-1/#comment-2301 Sat, 25 May 2013 15:14:37 +0000 http://www.hifizine.com/?p=6106#comment-2301 Just taken delivery of an LITE DAC-AH NOS and I have to say it’s been a total revelation.
I have tried a few dacs, all with oversampling delta sigma architecture, at one brief stage I had a 384 khz oversampling dac which was very brittle sounding, to my ears none compare to this, this is just musical, the bass is incredible and there seems to be a realism, 3D solidity and a lack of “edge” to the sound that I have not heard from digital before. I am using my new NOS dac with foobar/sox x2 upsampling>hiface and an Indeed tube buffer for hi-fi PC sound, its working so well in my set up that I don’t think I will modify it, although I may fit a filtered mains IEC inlet.

I will put my neck on the block and say if you do not have native 96/176.4/192-24bit type files, stick to NOS, the less oversampling/filtering of the digital signal the better if what I’ve heard is even only partially due to NOS. If I were being cynical I would have to say oversampling seems to have been a marketing ploy because if what I’ve heard is typical of NOS dacs in general then I can then think of no other reason to use it.

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