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Is AKM blatantly lying about the new AKM-AK4499EX chip being better? Here is the 117 page original AKM AK4499EQ chip’s data sheet. https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data Sheets/AKM Semiconductor Inc. PDFs/AK4499_Feb2019.pdf.
The new AKM-AK4499EX chip is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT 64pin outsourced chip, compared to the original AK4499EQ 128pin chip. The vague 5 page EX data sheet tells the sad story. https://www.akm.com/content/dam/doc...6hwMiO92qO68IAsc4SGcq-j7-HpS8ijlZHJ6gw5Z3MDxw
Sadly the AKM plant fire completely destroyed AKM’s FAB line and Japan manufacturing plant. Currently There’s no plant rebuilding going on. https://evertiq.com/design/51427 AKM latest chips are outsourced to generic chip manufactures. AKM’s original FAB line was state of the art and produced the highest measuring 128pin 32bit DAC chip ever, the AK4499EQ. The most other chip competition had were 64pin DAC chips.
I learned a long long time ago to read behind the lines. Just because it’s newer and companies claim it’s better, doesn’t mean it is. Sadly the audiophile industry still has dishonest snake-oil sales teams who’s only intention seems to be to upsell their products.
The new AKM-AK4499EX chip is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT 64pin outsourced chip, compared to the original AK4499EQ 128pin chip. The vague 5 page EX data sheet tells the sad story. https://www.akm.com/content/dam/doc...6hwMiO92qO68IAsc4SGcq-j7-HpS8ijlZHJ6gw5Z3MDxw
Sadly the AKM plant fire completely destroyed AKM’s FAB line and Japan manufacturing plant. Currently There’s no plant rebuilding going on. https://evertiq.com/design/51427 AKM latest chips are outsourced to generic chip manufactures. AKM’s original FAB line was state of the art and produced the highest measuring 128pin 32bit DAC chip ever, the AK4499EQ. The most other chip competition had were 64pin DAC chips.
I learned a long long time ago to read behind the lines. Just because it’s newer and companies claim it’s better, doesn’t mean it is. Sadly the audiophile industry still has dishonest snake-oil sales teams who’s only intention seems to be to upsell their products.