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I get can being vary about DRE, it is requires analog circuits to play along, even as solid-state ICs they are susceptible to tolerances...

About the CS431xxx DRE, would adding a constant, 0 dBFS, ultrasonic signal—a little bit like IMD measurements—force DRE, or equivalent...

This can be one way to defeat DRE in order to measure the AES17 DR with a -60 dB sine tone. The ultrasonic signal, say a 30 kHz...

On Low gain, the RAW-MDA1 will drive the 660S2 to 113dB SPL Peak. Still way louder than I could comfortably listen to. More precise...

You are truly an amazing fount of technical information! This is for sure the first time I'd heard about the lack of pullup resistors...

On reading this post, I'm confident that this discussion reached a point where we have expressed our clearly different viewpoints on...

Hate to say it, but the name TA-84 reminds me of the TI-84 graphing calculator, which is BAD if you just want to enjoy music.

That's interesting, so DRE is the origin of that pattern we have seen in many CS43131 devices, that we often called an "early rise in...

Exactly. The pattern that looked like an early rise in THD+N is mainly due to the DRE being phased out gradually (when the output level...

I missed the fact that you have tried the BTR17. I do understand in some situation where you apply large preamp cuts, bus-powered...

At least the JM20 MAX has no audible or measurable crunchy artifacts. And DRE is present in its measurements, which is part of the...

See my reply to @nick_l44.1 above.

I thought the main benefit was to reduce the noise (hiss…) in silence periods or between tracks. Am I wrong here?

I disagree. It is not fake. The main reason why this DRE technique's benefit is unnoticeable in many cases is just because the noise...

Of course, those would provide much higher output power at much higher cost. But the question is, will you use that much power? Your...