So apparently, the attached files are the DAC that the 8 series Genelec uses.
Anyone who knows anything about DACs will understand this as I certainly don't.
It would be great if these DACs are literally just "passthrough" so to speak as, if they are (or if such a thing even exists) then we are able to buy whatever external DAC we please as we know that what we are hearing is the DAC we just spent a lot of money on.
It would be nice if a rep from Genelec could shed a bit of light on this.......
People need to escape from this flawed way of thinking — it is entirely false/misguided to hope that
any of us can infer
anything meaningful about the performance of an active digital crossover speaker, based on internal components like DAC and amp specs.
These speakers are designed as a cohesive system, and it’s foolish to think you can infer anything meaningful about their performance by what chips they contain. You can’t even predict the SINAD of a dedicated DAC from its parts list (i.e. the same chips in two products will yield wildly different measured performances), so why in the world would you hope to predict anything meaningful this way about an even more complicated system design like these digital tri-DSP tri-amped active crossover speakers?
The ONLY meaningful way to measure a speaker system is ultimately to measure its end-to-end performance, and compare to the end-to-end performance of other speakers.
The inner components here do not matter at all (except maybe from the perspective of reliability), because you have no choice to change them for something else anyway (which IMO is a strength, not a weakness).
The only reason some of us obsess over DACs and Amps is really for purely theoretical purity and emotional reasons, when we want to be comfortably reassured that our analog passive speakers or headphones or whatever are living up to their fullest possible potential (by feeding them with complete overkill components).
Unlike passive speaker systems, a digitally-fed Genelec 83x1 is
always living up to its fullest potential. There is no point in worrying about anything but the end-to-end performance (how the sound pressure waves that hit you physically measure vs the input digital signal). Everything in between is taken care for you by Genelec, and they know what they’re doing. If you don’t like trusting their engineering, then perhaps buying commercial speakers isn’t for you (vs DIY) — because IMO if any company’s engineering excellence can be trusted without second-guessing their internal design choices (if you even could change their intervals, which you can’t), it’s Genelec.