roderickvd
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Latencies of up to 200 ms have been reported. That’s a decent-sized buffer too large to account for clock mismatch.
It’s on Steve Hoffman. The cd that you’re playing practically skips a beat every now and then.Which forum? Over which interface? And what exactly is micro-skipping? Was it consistent for multiple users?
All these questions because I find it very surprising. Unless the source is a late for the entire length of the FIFO buffer, either unit is faulty, or the link (cable connection) is not robust, I don’t see how this could happen.
Although not measurable I always listen to D90LE in 384khz mode instead of bit perfect 44.1 ... This is something I found myself without evidence or anyone else input that 384 sounds more spacious and more palatable on busy tracks (especially downmixes from surround) whereas 44 sounds more "sharp" but claustrophobic. There is no evidence behind this maybe someone is feeling the same however listening to music like this makes ME happy. I know I would rather listen to device that makes no apparent difference than say apple dongle, than something that is colouring the sound. Peace of mind makes difference to the sound the same way as listening to the music drunk or high and you can't measure it as it's happening in ADC chip right behind the spiral in your earThere are zero examples of anyone, ever demonstrating that they can hear something that isn't measurable. Not once.
This has an FPGA for SPDIF:There can only be one clock master in an audio system. When a CD player is connected via SPDIF it is the clock master. The DAC either has to sync its clock to that signal or properly resample the signal to its internal clock rate, even when it is the same nominal frequency. No idea how the DenaFrips handles this (or not, see below).
If otherwise a DAC design can be considered fundamentally broken, the only way to keep up playback is to drop or repeat one sample occasionally (often done rigt in the SPDIF reciever chips) -- that would be the micro-skipping... which normally is not audible when it happens only a few times per second or less.
The CD players have nothing to do with it.
"PROPRIETARY SPDIF DIGITAL AUDIO RECEIVER The SPDIF Coaxial, Optical, input support up to 24bit/192kHz digital audio format. The ARES abandon the use of Digital Audio Receiver chip. The digital data is decoded by the on-board FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), signal path is shortened and eliminated the undesirable coloration."
Every time I wonder if anything sillier can be put in writing than some of the things I've read here, or whether we've reached Peak Nonsense, you always restore my faith. My hat's off to you.Denafrips Ares II conveys more emotion.
Oh, is that what it is? Huh.Emotion: you move your feet when listening to music.
Emotion: you move your feet when listening to music.
So..... PRaT?
How do you separate the emotion from the source vs the emotion you perceive from the DAC?Sometimes, listening to some superb recordings of classical music I feel the need to get up and virtually conduct the orchestra <- that emotion
Some examples, but the YouTube sound...
Mravinsky, Leningrader P - Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos 4, 5 & 6 "Pathetique" (1961), Vinyl x3, Analogphonic 2017, Germany
Wilhem Furtwängler, Philharmonia Orchestra - Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 (1954), CD, Tahra, France
Denafrips Ares II perform 16 times oversampling to generate a pseudo First-Order Hold instead the more common Zero-Order Hold used by most ladder DACs. Maybe that is source of the delay.Denafrips ARES II USB R2R DAC Review
Latencies of up to 200 ms have been reported. That’s a decent-sized buffer too large to account for clock mismatch.www.audiosciencereview.com
What is that supposed to mean?RME ADI-2 sounds very well but only the cheap
The Ares II is their cheapest DAC- user Maty found it was the only one of their lineup that got his toe tapping.What is that supposed to mean?