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Kudos to Herr Meisner of RME for his enlightening post on page 7 of this forum. He states, in sum and and substance that any DAC with a volume control should be measured not merely at 0dBrms but also at “real life” listening levels: eg -20dBrms. A volume control exclusively in the digital...

Does anybody know what DAC and XMOS chips are in the LS50 II?

Thanks. If the signal is quantized down is there a sonic penalty to pay?

Hello all, am looking into a ladder (r2r) DAC, specifically the R26 from Gustard. The promo material claims that it can handle in PCM a word length of 16-32 bits. It was always my understanding that a ladder DAC capped out at 16 bits for various reasons - I assume to do with difficulty of...

Hello all, I have a couple of basic questions about streamers and DACs that I'm hoping some folks more knowledgeable than me may be able to help with. Firstly, I assume that small budget streamers such as Wiim, Chromecast Audio etc., can function as pure passthroughs. That is, they can just...